The 2012 Campaign – from the mouth of Jim Messina

By: politicalwoman (Diary)  |  November 21st at 03:25 PM  | 

While there may be many RedState readers who don’t normally read Politico.com, I sure do.  President Obama’s national campaign manager, Jim Messina, has his 10 takeaways from this past political campaign.  It’s worth reading and digesting, especially Point #2, “hire smart people,”  where Messina relates the advice that Google co-founder, Eric Schmidt, gave him, which led to the hugely successful data-driven campaign micro-targeting voters, who | Read More »

ORCA, meet Narwhal. This is how it’s done.

By: politicalwoman (Diary)  |  November 9th at 03:17 PM  | 

Back in April, I posted an article on my personal website addressing the potential of the Obama juggernaut, Operation Narwhal to win the election.  This operation was the ground game that defeated Romney’s Project ORCA and turned out the Democratic vote.  I also wrote another post back in 2011 about how Obama could be re-elected, centering on five strategies: 1) the Chicago machine; 2) class and economic | Read More »