What are the Odds

For the upcoming 2012 Presidential Elections, President Barack Obama has been scrunized and it did not look like he would be winning a reelection. According to the Huffington Post, on a conference call with reporters this morning, Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign touted the their second-quarter fundraising numbers, the number of individual donors and amount of grassroots support for the campaign. In my learning in chapter seven and eight grassroot mobilization is very important, your organzing citizens to support group poilcies or canidate preference.

 Campaign manager Jim Messina called the first weeks of the campaign, "a test of our grassroots strength, and the results are in." The reelection effort, he added, had 552,462 individual donors -- more than the total it received in all of 2007. Of those donors more than 260,000 were “completely new to the Obama organization.”The fundraising numbers offered more than just a chance for the Obama re-election team to tout its enduring support and wide-ranging reach.

 It also gave them an opportunity to create contrasts with those in the Republican primary field. "Given the lack of grassroots enthusiasm surrounding some of the Republican candidates, it will be interesting to see to what extent they rely on special interest and Washington lobbyists to fund their campaigns," said Messina.

I'd measure grass roots success by enthusiasm­, number of volunteers and word of mouth. Among the Obama base I didnt think there was much enthusiasm and no one is saying much positive about Obama. While reading this article I was suprised that there were so many followers around his campaigns. This story caught my attention because, I saw lobbyist and grassroot moblization. Since we were studying them in our books, i though it wise to see how it applies in government today. Its obvious that this person is trying to get the word out that President Barack Obama still has a chance and not to count him out. I think this story is more bragging to liberals conservatives about how many donations and grassroot followers he has.