Poll: Rate the Obama Campaign

[AsburySkinsFan]

Honestly rate it; effectiveness, strategy, tactics, choices, weathering the criticisms; from a junior senator that would have then only won Hawaii, Illinois, and DC to President elect with 338 electoral votes (possibly more) 50 million+ votes cast.

I know that I have Obama love, but I cannot imagine a more perfect campaign. IMO David Plouff and David Axelrod were impecable in this campaign and it seemed clear that this was Obama's campaign and not the "party's" campaign. Great Job.

BTW, the poll is public because I hate ninjas.

Oh...to save from confusion...10 is the best.

[mjah]

I give him a 9. I just don't think there's such thing as a perfect campaign.

My quibbles with Obama's campaign are fairly minor. But I do have them.

[StillUnknown]

i voted 9

4yrs ago before the DNC speech, he was a virtual unknown to people outside of political cirlces. to go from there to President Elect in an unbelievable achievement. he beat the clinton machine, and stayed relatively on message throughout the whole campaign.

the clinton campaign had too many cooks in the kitchen, Obama's campaign managed to stay unified even when the polls weren't necessarily in his favor

[skinsfan07]

10.............Yes we did.

[10fttall]

I say a 9 as well. If you see the purpose of a campaign as to elect the man, there's very little they could have done better, except maybe engineer a popular landslide. Not to be devisive, but Obama had a TON of issues to overcome: associations that had to be marginalized, political positions that had to be carefully crafted to actually sound exciting and desirable instead of punative and redistributive. A campaign that can generate the excitement and difuse the negatives like this one did...it's a pretty darn good one.

[DarrellsMyHero28]

:doh:

I thought you meant 'rank' so I put 1

His campaign deserves a 10, this is one of, if not the best presidential campaign ever run in this country.

[Ivy94f]

It ran like a machine. I'd never seen anything like it. The website is outstanding, the marketing was top notch. Aside from liking Obama, I was impressed by how efficient his campaign team was.

[joeknows]

heres to good friends....... tonite is kinda special.......

[Dan T.]

Even at ground level it was very efficient. I know a couple of people who volunteered locally for the campaign, knocking on doors. They went to the local campaign office, where they were given the area they were to cover with a map showing each house to hit. Their role as canvassers was simply a get-out-the-vote task, so their maps showed only those houses that leaned Democratic in past elections - others in the campaign were assigned the persuasion role and had those targeted houses marked. Everything at this office, anyway, was run very very efficiently, according to my friends who volunteered.

[AsburySkinsFan]

Even at ground level it was very efficient. I know a couple of people who volunteered locally for the campaign, knocking on doors. They went to the local campaign office, where they were given the area they were to cover with a map showing each house to hit. Their role as canvassers was simply a get-out-the-vote task, so their maps showed only those houses that leaned Democratic in past elections - others in the campaign were assigned the persuasion role and had those targeted houses marked. Everything at this office, anyway, was run very very efficiently, according to my friends who volunteered.

Yeah, that's another testament is the ground game, simply unbelievable, and to get the youth vote out, that's part inspiration and part perspiration their organization seemed from the outside to be perfect, especially in the face of the GOP machine.

[Sweet Sassy Molassy]

This is the best organized and directed campaigns I have ever seen in my short period of time on this Earth.

[Nafniksder]

I have to agree with the other posters, this campaign ran like a well oiled machine. I mean Obama's camapaign was well organized, they way they used the interent to raise money and reach out to younger voters and get them involved in the political process. I think Obama's campaign strategy will studied by political scientists for years to come, you have to give credit where it is due.

[Koolblue13]

This was an amazing campaign. Amazing.

[twa]

Couldn't have been much better...9

We will have to wait to see if running for office well translates into running the country well.

Congrats again, there is no higher office...and no voting present;)

[Ax]

I gave it a 7 for it's effectiveness to inspire a lot of people to believe, which is the easy part.

[The Sisko]

Even at ground level it was very efficient. I know a couple of people who volunteered locally for the campaign, knocking on doors. They went to the local campaign office, where they were given the area they were to cover with a map showing each house to hit. Their role as canvassers was simply a get-out-the-vote task, so their maps showed only those houses that leaned Democratic in past elections - others in the campaign were assigned the persuasion role and had those targeted houses marked. Everything at this office, anyway, was run very very efficiently, according to my friends who volunteered.

I had exactly the same experience here in GA. I came away very impressed with the organization and efficiency. In both cases (primary and general) they had folks there who came in from out of state to run that particular office.

[PeterMP]

There were a lot of mistakes. The McCain campaign was AT LEAST just as bad (and I'd argue much worse) and that combination w/ Bush was enough.

[Midnight Judges]

IMO Obama's campaign was about as close to flawless as a campaign gets.

[Henry]

I gave him a 6. He ran a good campaign, but he got a LOT of help from George Bush, Sarah Palin, and most importantly the economy. I give him full marks for getting past Hillary, but once there I don't see how any Dem candidate could lose under these circumstances without getting caught with a dead girl or a live boy.

[Titans&SkinsFan]

i gave it a 9...there is probably no perfect campaign