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Radio Iowa: Obama campaign chief of staff on polling, enthusiasm
learfield.typepad.com - 8/28/2008
Radio Iowa: Obama campaign chief of staff on polling, enthusiasm
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You may have already read of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's chat with Iowans here or here . Other highlights of the morning meeting of Ioaw Democrats attending the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver included former Governor Tom Vilsack starting things off by calling Iowa Democrats "game changers" because they voted for Barack Obama over his candidate, Hillary Clinton and he reminded ...

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The Swamp:  Obama campaign: 2,504 employees

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Obama campaign: 2,504 employees
The Swamp — ... headquarters. So, it was interesting to read a dispatch yesterday from Radio Iowa's O.K. Henderson about an appearance before the Iowa delegation by Jim Messina, Obama's campaign chief of staff. Messina told the Iowans on Wednesday that "as of this morning, we have 2,504 staff." He also told the group that Obama's campaign has four PhD statisticians working in Chicago to crunch possible turnout, demographics and other metrics. The full Radio Iowa dispatch is linked here.

Obama campaign chief calls McCain a “schmuck”!
Crooks and Liars — ...   Obama campaign chief of staff Jim Messina has some tough words for John McCain while detailing the campaign’s strategy during a meeting with Iowa Democrats. ...

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