In 2004, George W Bush “won” the Ground Game. This time? Well, every indication is that Barack Obama has built a vastly more formidable organisation than John McCain. To help give readers a sense of what’s happening out there in the field, I’m delighted to say that super-smart Democratic operative “Josh Lyman” is going to be filing occasional reports from the great state of Ohio. Here’s his first dispatch:
“I got placed in Bowling Green, right by Bowling Green State University. To say that this area is a hotbed of activism, ground tactics, tension, and the trenches of the cultural war would be a stretch. The county is a swing county, but that is mostly because there are 50,000 rural families and 25,000 Bowling Green residents combined with 25,000 Bowling Green students. Unlike in 2004, the voting apparatus is controlled by Democrats. So there won’t be instances of there being two voting machines on campus but nine in an Amish community on the outskirts of town, like there was four years ago.
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