Obama Blog: Obama link with scattering students

Friday, June 22, 2007

Obama link with scattering students

With the summer now fully upon us, college students have scattered to the four corners. They've gone backpacking, to summer jobs or internships, back to their folk's, etc. Some have graduated and have relocated to new jobs.

For a campaign so strongly driven by young people, it will be important for the Obama campaign to stay connected to their student supporters.

The Obama Mobile service offering cellphone updates, alerts, wallpaper and ringtones is part of this effort.

When school reopens in the fall, Students for Obama will be tasked with regrouping and reaching out to new and transfer students.

Obama releases info on earmarks

Barack Obama became the only presidential candidate to release information on his earmark requests today.

"On Wednesday morning Obama released a list of roughly 100 proposed earmarks that he had submitted to the Appropriations Committee this year. As would be expected, the requests are for largely benign items, ranging from funding for AIDS programs to Army Corps of Engineers projects in the Chicagoland area."