20 field offices open in Virginia

One can tell a lot about the Obama campaign's focus on battleground states by observing the buildup of resources in each of these states.

In Virginia, the campaign has opened 20 new field offices, a clear sign of how important that state will be in the general election. There will be much work on voter registration and volunteer recruitment leading up to the official start of the campaign after the Democratic Convention in Denver.

Here is a Flickr slide-show of the office-opening events in Virginia.




The ground campaign will work in concert with online efforts, and Barack Obama addressed the Netroots Nation gathering in Texas last week.

Obama California opens four new offices

The California Obama campaign is having the grand opening of four new official campaign offices in San Jose, Palo Alto, Santa Ana, and San Bernadino today, January 13th, at 1pm to 3pm PST at each location. There is a total now of nine California field offices. Here is a list of the new office addresses:

• 410 East Santa Clara Satreet, San Jose, CA 95113
• 3892 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306
• 214 N. Broadway, Ste. 210, Santa Ana, CA 92701
• 374 W. Court St., Ste. E207, San Bernardino, CA 92401

barackobama.com easily leads web race

According to alexa.com, the official Obama campaign website has jumped far ahead of the Hillary Clinton and John Edwards sites starting a week or so before the beginning of the Iowa Caucus.

At one point in Jan., Obama's site reached more than three times the percentage of internet users and page views as the second place Clinton site.

Barack's email today

Barack Obama sent out an email today that highlights the campaign's infrastructure in the early states including the Super Tuesday states.

It's been an inspiring journey so far, but tomorrow night in Iowa the action really begins.

Our journey will continue through more than 20 other states in a little over a month.

But first, I wanted you to see this video showing where we've been:

https://donate.barackobama.com/promise

We're still just shy of our goal of 500,000 people owning a piece of this campaign. You've already given, but if you promise to match the donation of someone who hasn't given yet, you could bring in the person who puts us over the top.

Make a donation of $25 now and help us get there:

https://donate.barackobama.com/promise

The half a million people like you who've donated to this campaign have allowed us to build an unparalleled organization across the country.

Our campaign manager, David Plouffe, put together some numbers this week that show the strength of what this movement has created in the first four states and beyond:

• Iowa: January 3rd -- We have more field offices (37), more field staffers (over 200), and more volunteers than any other campaign. According to the final Des Moines Register poll before the caucuses, the strength of our lead comes from "a dramatic influx of first-time caucusgoers, including a sizable bloc of political independents."


• New Hampshire: January 8th -- The largest field operation in the state has made nearly 1.6 million phone calls and knocked on 330,000 doors. Our campaign has been endorsed by both Democratic US Representatives, Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter, and the latest Boston Globe/University of New Hampshire poll puts us in the lead.


• Nevada: January 19th -- We have the biggest organization with 11 field offices and more than 50 staff; we're gaining strength every day.


• South Carolina: January 26th -- Former Democratic chairman Donald Fowler praised our 55 staff members in 11 offices for running "the most methodical voter-canvassing project I have ever seen in South Carolina."


• 22 other states: February 5th -- We have 32 offices open in 17 states, including states like Alaska, Utah, and Alabama where we're the only campaign up and running with a serious organization.

We're fired up here in Iowa, and nearly half a million people all across the country who own a piece of this campaign are ready to go.

Take a moment to watch this video about where we've been, and make a donation now to get us where we're going:

https://donate.barackobama.com/promise

Thank you,

Barack