Re: Obama Internals October 21 2008
That may be so, but then this story by the panicking princesses of proletarianism popped up on Young Philly Socialists:
The Word On The Street: No Street Money
Submitted by Marc Stier on Tue, 10/21/2008 – 12:03am.
The word on the street is that there is going to be no money on the street from the Obama campaign.
No one knows for sure. But ward leaders are worried.
This would be an innovation in Pennsylvania politics…and in my view, a really dumb one.
Street money goes from City Committee to ward leaders who then use it to pay for Election expenses: letters to voters, gas for the cars used to drive voters to the polls, food for people working at the polls and, a small stipend to committee people, usually about $100.
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Everyone knows that committee people have less influence in a Presidential election than in any other election. Most voters know who they are going to vote for before they go to the polls.But in an election in which an African American candidate is running, and a lot of white working class voters are not so comfortable with the prospect of voting for him, the committee people become important. For the most important way of convincing people to cast an uncomfortable vote is to have people they trust model that vote for them. That’s what good committee people can do. And we need them to do it in places like South Philly and Roxborough and in the River Wards and the Northeast.
The “press” tells us Obama is outspending McCain by ridiculously high amounts, so where is the money going? Is he so confident Philly, being predominantly Dem and rapidly becoming predominantly black, will automatically vote for him? Now, THAT’S audacity,…
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