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Title: Groundbreakers :how Obama's 2.2 million volunteers transformed campaigning in America /Elizabeth McKenna, Hahrie Han ; foreword by Jeremy Bird. Author: McKenna, Elizabeth,(author.). Location: 331.87 MCK Added Name: Han, Hahrie, (author.). Subject: Presidents -- United States -- Election --2008. Presidents -- United States -- Election --2012. Political campaigns -- United States. Political participation -- United States. Geographic Name: United States--Politics and government. ISBN: 9780199394609 (paperback) 0199394601 (paperback) Collation: xx, 248 pages ; 24 cm. Contents Note: 1. Obama for America: stronger people and stronger communities -- Part I: The Historical Roots of the Obama Field operation. 2. The Way Things Were ; 3.Discovery and Diffusion -- Part II: The Nuts and Bolts of the Ground Game ; 4. Building Depth By Investing in Relationships ; 5. Creating a Structure to Share Responsibility: Neighborhood Teams ; 6. Using Metrics to Get to Scale -- Part III: Obama for America's Legacy -- 7. Reflection -- Works Cited -- Index. Summary Note: "Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billion dollar operation elected the nation's first black president, raised and spent more money than any other election effort in history, and built the most sophisticated voter targeting technology ever before used on a national campaign. But what is missing from these accounts is an understanding of how Obama for America organized its formidable army of 2.2 million volunteers -- over eight times the number of people who volunteered for democratic candidates in 2004. Unlike previous field campaigns that drew their power from staff, consultants, and paid canvassers, the Obama campaign's capacity came from unpaid local citizens who took responsibility for organizing their own neighborhoods months--and even years--in advance of election day. In so doing, Groundbreakers argues, the campaign enlisted citizens in the often unglamorous but necessary work of practicing democracy. Hahrie Han and Elizabeth McKenna argue that the legacy of Obama for America is a transformation of the traditional models of field campaigning. Groundbreakers makes the case that the Obama ground game was revolutionary in two regards not captured in previous accounts. First, the campaign piloted and scaled an alternative model of field campaigning that built the power of a community at the same time that it organized it. Second, the Obama campaign changed the individuals who were a part of it, turning them into leaders. Groundbreakers proves that presidential campaigns are still about more than clicks, big data and money, and that one of the most important ways that a campaign develops its capacity is by investing in its human resources"-- Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index. ------------------------------ TF1258636 On Loan Due: 31 Dec 2024 from Main Loan 331.87 MCK -----------------------------------------------