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Winning Formula
How Obama's team built a victory
Jan 4, 2008 | Updated: 1:34 a.m. ET Jan 4, 2008
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The torch has been passed. At least it looks that way to me. Here's one reason why.
Hours before the Iowa results were in or known, top officials of Sen. Barack Obama's campaign told me what the final numbers would be: Obama would win by at least seven points and the turnout in the Democratic caucuses would be well above 200,000.
The final figures: eight points and 236,000.
I mention this for one reason: to say that, among other things, the 2008 Iowa caucuses will be remembered as the place where a new generation of superb Democratic organizers made its debut.
Obama rode to victory on a tide of emotion, charisma and desire for change. But mark this: these kids—and most of them are kids—beat the older crowd of traditional operatives at their own game and did it with tech and Internet savvy, brains, fund-raising skills, connections, street smarts and old-fashioned shoe-leather dedication.
History is the accumulation of small, individual acts—and the acts of the Obama kids in Iowa together made history. My sense is that they are poised to make a lot more.
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