Why Obama Staffers Are Secretly Worried
Publicly, he’s acting like he already won. But behind the scenes, Obama’s campaign is amassing lawyers and gearing up to counter dirty tactics on election day.
By Paul Alexander
This week, Barack Obama has shown clear signs that he is confident he is going to win. But privately, top Obama leadership are still worried that Republicans might be able to pull off another improbable election night victory.
Last week, in closed-to-the-press meetings, Obama officials briefed major donors about their concerns heading into the election’s final stretch. One of those meetings took place in Austin, Texas—a city in the solid red state of Texas that has raised a surprisingly large amount of money for Obama, mostly from the city’s high-tech community.
“The Obama campaign has learned the lessons of 2000 and 2004. On Election Day, lawyers will be everywhere—all the way down to the county level.”
In Texas and other states, Obama officials are preparing for the possibility that polls may be wildly off because of the so-called Bradley effect.
“The Obama officials are very cautious,” says an attendee at the Austin meeting. “They want comfortable margins in place just in case. They are looking at three to six percentage points as a possible Bradley effect. Before they consider a state comfortable, they want it outside the polling margins. They think the Bradley effect could be as large as six—maybe even seven—percentage points, but they don’t really know.”
Another major concern of the campaign is what they consider to be voter suppression. “The Obama leadership believes there is a systematic campaign,” says the attendee, “by the White House and the Justice Department to suppress voter turnout across the country.”
To counteract the Bradley effect and potential voter suppression, the Obama leadership has amassed one of the largest legal teams ever assembled by a presidential campaign. The main goal of the legal team, almost all of them volunteers, is to guarantee ballot security. “The Obama campaign has learned the lessons of 2000 and 2004,” my source says. “On Election Day, lawyers will be everywhere—all the way down to the county level.
Obama officials point to the government’s treatment of ACORN, the nationwide association of community organizations, as an example of possible voter suppression. The campaign has never relied on ACORN for its voter registration drives, according to Obama officials, and is viewed as only one of many venders hired by the campaign. Of the $605 million raised by the Obama campaign so far, only $800,000 has gone to ACORN—a number that could be much larger, and would have been had the campaign relied on it more heavily.
But perhaps the most important asset the Obama campaign has is an army of workers estimated to be as large as 100,000 nationwide. Some paid staffers, mostly volunteers, the workers are being spread out across the country to states the Obama campaign is targeting. For example, 5,000 workers based in Texas—a state Obama doesn’t expect to win—are being relocated to New Mexico, a state Obama believes he can win.
Obama workers will be flooding into other battleground states in the waning days of the presidential race, among them Colorado, Nevada, and Ohio—perhaps even Georgia and Montana. What is impressive about this sizable operation is its very organization. By Election Day, campaign officials believe, they may have the most extensive grass-roots organization of any presidential campaign in history.
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Posted by Roger W. Gardner on October 27, 2008 8:22 pm
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A DANGER TO THE WORLD
Barrack Hussein Obama is running for President of the United States!
He has not proved that he meets U S Constitutional qualification requirements,
i.e. age, citizenship, allegiance, etc.
Howard Dean and The Democratic National Committee are DESTROYING DEMOCRACY,
and, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY by ABETTING, and CONSORTING with a LYING DECEITFUL “FORGER”
OF a birth certificate, in his sneaky scheming attempt to prevent the truth of his original CITIZENSHIP,
and facts about his ADOPTION by Indonesian Lolo Soetoro that denies him “natural-born citizen”
status, and identifies him as either a “naturalized citizen”, a citizen of Indonesia, or an “alien”!
American citizens, and voters will not let Obama, nor John Dean, nor The DNC get away with this
deceitful attempt to ignore our U S Constitution, and it’s required Qualifications for becoming
President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces!
The DNC, has a DUTY to properly “VET” (Prove eligible) candidates for elective office,
THEY HAVE FAILED! And Dean is Responsible!
John Dean is an EMBARASSMENT to every Democrat, and every American!
Every American, even a Judge has a “DUTY” to PROTECT our Country from the invasion of FOREIGNERS,
and or the ELECTION of un-qualified OFFICIALS who threaten to destroy our Country from within!
Any Judge that ignores these requirements, threats, or the duty to protect our Country, should be Disbarred!
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WAKE UP PENNSYLVANIA
Birthplace of U.S. Democracy Fails Democracy!
Hon. Judge R. Barclay Surrick: “Voters do not have “Standing”!
JUSTICE DENIED!
CONFIRMING REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Knowing ‘full well’ that Obama has “repeatedly” refused to present ANY evidence to support the
“REQUIRED U S CONSTITUTIONAL QUALIFICATIONS TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE U S”, and
given the opportunity to rectify this extremely serious omission, Hon. Judge R. Barclay Surrick:
had an absolute moral obligation, and “duty” as a, citizen of the United States, and Judge, to take
Judicial action that would protect all Americans from the possibility a citizen of a foreign Country
would become President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces!
All he had to do was insist that Obama present several documents that everyone must
present to qualify for a US Passport!
But because he was fearful of making some minor ‘legal’ ‘faux pas’, he endangers the entire
world, by ‘passing the buck’ and delaying the outcome, which could result in a foreigner
becoming President of the Free World!
He certainly knows the limits of time for resolving this matter properly!
And he also failed to recommend judicial consideration by a higher court!
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Lawsuit Against Obama Dismissed from Philadelphia Federal Court
http://www.flds.ws/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/obama-surricks-10242008-ruling-2.pdf
Who does have standing?
According to the Hon. R. Barclay Surrick:
“—that’s completely up to Congress to decide”. (?) (Absurd!)
“If, through the political process, Congress determines that citizens, voters, (Have standing?)
or party members should police the Constitution’s eligibility requirements for the
Presidency, then it is free to pass laws conferring standing on individuals,
like Plaintiff.” (Philip Berg Esq.)
Until that time, voters do not have standing to bring the sort of challenge that
Plaintiff attempts to bring in the Amended Complaint.”
(Request FOR DOCUMENT PROOF OF QUALIFICATIONS.)
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ELECTING A US PRESIDENT
Electoral College does not verify Constitutional qualification requirements!
CAN AN ILLEGAL ALIEN BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?
There appears a most outrageous failure, and serious deficiency in Laws governing Elections; that being a lack of a
law, or mandate to verify positively, the US Constitutional qualification requirements to be President of the United States!
Nowhere have I found a Law, regulation, or mandate requiring any specific “Authority” to ‘question’, or, ‘verify’ the required “Qualifications”!
EACH STATE MAY DENY A CANDIDATE ACCESS TO THE BALLOT
Accent “MAY”!
The mere fact of Constitutional ineligibility has not deterred some parties from nominating un-qualified candidates for President
who could not possibly serve in the office. Although some states have blocked ballot access for such candidates,
the Socialist Workers Party placed an alien, Róger Calero, its candidate, on the ballot in Mississippi in 2004
Calero was born in Nicaragua in 1969 is a permanent resident alien (holding a green card) since 1990.
HAZARDS OF NON-CONFORMITY
If, after several states denied an unqualified President-Elect access to the ballot a sufficient number
of Electoral Votes remained; we could still have an un-qualified person, or illegal-alien for a President!
And, a Congress controlled by one Party may also choose to ignore the qualifications of someone they
prefer to be President, so, America could be ’saddled’ with an alien, Indonesian,
or, other foreigner, for President!