This Michelle Cottle piece that the ever sassy latina for obama over at the unbelievably excellent The Field points to is kind of interesting. Here's what it is missing amid all the finger pointing: an emphasis on organization. The Clinton campaign got out organized and out hustled every step of the way. Yes, they pulled out all the stops and bussed in thousands of college students and union members from AFSCME for New Hampshire and beat us there. And they managed to hold the line in Nevada. But there after, their only victories came in places that they had overwhelming demographic advantages. Yet where is the discussion of grassroots organizing in the obits that Cottle collected?

Barack Obama represents the new Democratic party. A party that not only has better ideas and better candidates than the Republicans, but is lean and mean and ruthlessly well organized enough to beat them, as Michael Dukasis said, in every precinct in the country. Clinton's campaign was the death throes of the old media driven, top down campaign of the past. So don't mourn Clinton, organize!

Joe Trippi is right. Obama's campaign is the future, the Dean approach on steroids. And its another example of how things keep getting faster. It took 20 years for the Republicans to go from Goldwater to Reagan and for movement conservatives to reshape the GOP. But it only took us four
 to get from Dean to Obama and take control of our party.

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