U.S. Social Movements through Biography

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 21.01.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. School Information and Demographics
  3. Rational
  4. The Storm
  5. Two David’s, One Nucleus
  6. New Technology
  7. The Field Operation
  8. Get Out the Vote
  9. Classroom Activities
  10. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography

Mobilizing Change: Lessons Learned from Obama’s 2008 Campaign

Sean Means

Published September 2021

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Notes

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  3. Weinberg, John. “The Great Recession and its Aftermath.” Federal Reserve History. November 13, 2013. https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/great-recession-and-its-aftermath. 
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  6. Weinberg, John. “The Great Recession and its Aftermath.” Federal Reserve History. November 13, 2013. https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/great-recession-and-its-aftermath. 
  7. “The Growing Budgetary Costa of the Iraq War.” US Government Printing Office, 2018. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-110hhrg39991/html/CHRG-110hhrg39991.htm ./
  8. “The Growing Budgetary Costa of the Iraq War.” US Government Printing Office, 2018. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-110hhrg39991/html/CHRG-110hhrg39991.htm ./
  9. Rosentiel, Tom. “Public Attitudes Toward the War in Iraq: 2003-2008.” Pew Research Center, March 19, 2008. https://www.pewresearch.org/2008/03/19/public-attitudes-toward-the-war-in-iraq-20032008/
  10. Montenaro, Domenico. “How Exactly Do the Iowa Caucuses Work?” NPR, January 30, 2016. https://www.npr.org/2016/01/30/464960979/how-do-the-iowa-caucuses-work
  11. Epstein, Kayla. “How do the Iowa caucuses work, and how are they different in 2020?” Washington post, February 3, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/24/how-iowa-caucuses-work/_
  12. “Statistics on the civil war and medicine.” Ohio State University department of history, accessed July 6, 2021. https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/cwsurgeon/cwsurgeon/statistics
  13. Gude, Shawn. “Iowa was Obama’s jumpstart.” Politico, May 16, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2008/05/iowa-was-obamas-jump-start-010403.
  14. Plouffe, David. The Audacity to Win. New York: Penguin Book, 2010. Page 8
  15. “David Axelrod Recounts His Years as Obama’s Adviser and ‘Believer.’” NHPR, February 10, 2015. https://www.nhpr.org/post/david-axelrod-recounts-his-years-obamas-adviser-and-believer#stream/
  16. Kaiser, Robert G. “The Player at Bat.” Washington Post, May 2, 2008. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103509.html?nav=hcmodule
  17. Domingo di Pace, Pasquale. “Political Campaign Revolutions: Case Study Barack Obama 2008.” LUISS department of political science, 2016. https://tesi.eprints.luiss.it/17877/1/073102_DI%20PACE_PASQUALE%20DOMING.pdf
  18. Kaiser, Robert G. “The Player at Bat.” Washington Post, May 2, 2008. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103509.html?nav=hcmodule
  19. Pasquale Domingo di Pace, “Political Campaign Revolutions: Case Study Barack Obama 2008.” LUISS department of political science, 2016. https://tesi.eprints.luiss.it/17877/1/073102_DI%20PACE_PASQUALE%20DOMING.pdf
  20. Robert G. Kaiser, “The Player at Bat.” Washington Post, May 2, 2008. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103509.html?nav=hcmodule
  21. David Plouffe, The Audacity to Win, New York: Penguin Book, 2010. Page 8
  22. Kaiser, “The Player at Bat.”
  23. Plouffe, The Audacity to Win,
  24. Carol Vernallis, "Audiovisual Change: Viral Web Media and the Obama Campaign." <i>Cinema Journal</i> 50, no. 4 (2011): 73-97. Accessed July 7, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41240736.
  25. Domingo di Pace, “Political Campaign Revolutions: Case Study Barack Obama 2008.”
  26. Zuiderveen Borgesius, F.J., Möller, J., Kruikemeier, S., Ó Fathaigh, R., Irion, K., Dobber, T., Bodo, B. and de Vreese, C., 2018. Online Political Microtargeting: Promises and Threats for Democracy. Utrecht Law Review, 14(1), pp.82–96. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/ulr.420
  27. Zuiderveen, “Online,” 83.
  28. Domingo di Pace, “Political Campaign Revolutions: Case Study Barack Obama 2008.”
  29. Mark A. Jemison, “Politics and Business in Social Media.” American Enterprise Institute, May 16, 2018. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/05-16-18%20Jamison%20Testimony.pdf.
  30. Vernallis, "Audiovisual Change: Viral Web Media and the Obama Campaign.”
  31. Jeffrey Ressner, “10 Most viral videos of the campaign.” Politico, November 2, 2008. https://www.politico.com/story/2008/11/10-most-viral-videos-of-the-campaign-015182.
  32. Ressner, “10 Most viral videos of the campaign.”
  33. Tom Rosentiel, “Young voters in the 2008 presidential primaries.” Pew research center, February 11, 2008. https://www.pewresearch.org/2008/02/11/young-voters-in-the-2008-presidential-primaries/
  34. John McCormick, “Camp helps Obama team hit trail.” Chicago Tribune, May 28, 2007. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-05-28-0705270371-story.html.
  35. Michael Ganz, “2009 Organizing Obama: Campaign, Organization, Movement.” American Sociological Association, August 8, 2009. https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/27306258/Organizing-Obama-Final.pdf?sequence=1.
  36. Joe Rospars, “How Howard deans scream helped Obama win the presidency.” Time, July 1, 2014. https://time.com/2946448/howard-dean-scream-obama-president/.
  37. Ganz, “2009 Organizing Obama: Campaign, Organization, Movement.”
  38. Ganz, “2009 Organizing Obama: Campaign, Organization, Movement.”
  39. Ganz, “2009 Organizing Obama: Campaign, Organization, Movement.”
  40. Rospars, “How Howard deans scream helped Obama win the presidency.”
  41. “OFA Organizing Manuel.” Organizing for Action, Accessed July 7, 2021. https://ofalegacytrainings.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/OFA-organizing-manual.pdf.
  42. “OFA Organizing Manuel.”
  43. Colin Swearingen, “The impact of presidential field offices in Ohio, 2008-2012.” John Carroll University, 2018. https://collected.jcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&context=fac_bib_2018. 
  44. Plouffe, The Audacity to Win, 62.
  45. “Obama’s Candidacy: A Timeline.” NPR, accessed July 7, 2021. https://legacy.npr.org/news/graphics/2008/june/obama_candidacy/obama_timeline_04.html#nov2007.
  46. “Obama’s Candidacy: A Timeline.”
  47. “Barack Obama elected as America’s first black president.” History.com, November 4, 2008. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/barack-obama-elected-as-americas-first-black-president
  48. “Barack Obama elected as America’s first black president.”
  49. Marc J. Selverstone, “John F. Kennedy: Campaigns and Elections.” UVA Miller center, Accessed July 7, 2021. https://millercenter.org/president/kennedy/campaigns-and-elections.
  50. Selverstone, “John F. Kennedy: Campaigns and Elections.”

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