Blodgett Strategy Briefing On Obama Campaign Get Out The Vote Effort
ST. PAUL – Minnesota state director Jeff Blodgett held a press briefing today at 1:00 PM on the Obama Campaign for Change Get Out The Vote strategy. The briefing took place at “packet land,” the central location for assembling the material volunteers will use to accomplish the campaign’s aggressive goals during GOTV. Volunteers will be working at this location throughout the day.
The Obama Campaign for Change is organizing an aggressive, coordinated GOTV operation in a state known for grassroots get-out-the-vote efforts.
"We plan to work with a universe of 500,000 voters, voters who don't always vote in elections or they're new voters. We intend to knock on their doors, up to four times, between last Saturday up through election day."
"In addition, we intend to make phone calls to hundreds of thousand of voters who don't live in areas where it's convenient to door knock. And so, that combined effort we're working with about a million voters in our universe."
"In addition to the 37 field offices, we're going be offering 130 staging locations," said Jeff Blodgett at the strategy briefing.
