Hot! Obama Campaign Mulls What To Do With Lauded Ground Game Reuters

By Jeff Mason and Eric Johnson

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO Thu Nov 8, 2012 7:10pm EST

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's first advertising campaign once left offices wide open in swing movement reports after 2008 for boosting their re-election energy around 2012. So how are you affected now that will all of the infrastructure in which aided secure the Democrat a couple stipulations throughout office?

The resolution is usually unclear. Obama's political advisers, in a seminar call together with reporters on Thursday, said they will could be showing you together with his supporters easy methods to switch forward, but these people suggested in which potential Democratic prospects within coming elections couldn't presume your Obama soil gadget could be automatically at their disposal.

"You just can't copy this," stated David Plouffe, a new senior citizen White House adviser whom managed Obama's marketing campaign four years ago.

"People usually are not likely to spend hours away from their own families in addition to his or her jobs, contributing in financial terms any time it's difficult pertaining to all of them to accomplish the idea with regard to that they feel within the actual candidate."

Jim Messina, Obama's 2012 campaign manager, mentioned his workforce would trigger an operation with the volunteers that corrected the particular multistate facilities that turned out voters to get Obama.

"We're going to undergo a process having each of our supporters and also have a conversing together with regards to what exactly they really want to carry out next, along with we've generally listened towards the soil game, listened to our supporters," they said.

"We definitely will spend an afternoon mastering the particular classes from one other nighttime ahead of we get started thinking about 2014 or even 2016."

The much-heralded ground activity is thought to be one among the beginning steps-initial to be able to Obama's victory with Tuesday. The president won nearly all of that battleground claims that equally this individual and also Republican rival Mitt Romney contested.

Democrats who will be considering working to get president in 2016 can be delighted to be able to tap into your listings connected with names, technology, along with know-how in which this Obama team amassed, however Plouffe warned of which it was before quite a bit less simple seeing that overpowering such assets.

"For candidates who wish to try and develop a grassroots campaign, it is really not gonna take place because there exists a listing and also since you possess the greatest technology. That's not necessarily the best way this particular works," Plouffe said.

"They include to make way up of which sort of over emotional appeal making sure that persons are prepared to move out right now there and commit time and his or her sources and supply their abilities because they believe in anyone and inside precisely what that you're offering," he said.

"The solely explanation that all this occured about the surface - whether or not it was 08 or this specific time.was for the reason that considered in Barack Obama," he or she said.