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

By Jeff Mason as well as Eric Johnson

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

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's primary marketing campaign famously still left offices open up in swing states after 2008 to improve his / her re-election effort throughout 2012. So what happens today to all on the facilities that will made it easier for risk-free the particular Democrat a pair of stipulations inside office?

The reply will be unclear. Obama's political advisers, in a management meeting call using reporters on Thursday, said they'd end up being discussing along with his / her followers the right way to move forward, but they suggested that likely Democratic applicants inside returning elections could not presume the particular Obama ground piece of equipment could well be auto-magically at their particular disposal.

"You just simply are unable to transfer this," said David Plouffe, a senior citizen White House adviser exactly who maintained Obama's advertising campaign a number of several years ago.

"People usually are not visiting spend a long time from their families in addition to their jobs, surrounding monetarily as soon as it's hard with regard to them to perform the item until they will trust the actual candidate."

Jim Messina, Obama's 2012 marketing manager, said his / her company would likely kick-off your progression with the volunteers whom made up your multistate commercial infrastructure that will proved voters to get Obama.

"We're about to go through an activity along with our followers and still have a conversation together about precisely what they need to undertake next, and we are now always listened to the actual soil game, took in to help our own supporters," this individual said.

"We definitely will spend time mastering this tuition from your different night time before we start contemplating 2014 as well as 2016."

The much-heralded surface game is considered considered one of this keys that will Obama's wining on Tuesday. The president claimed nearly all involving the particular battleground states which equally he as well as Republican competitor Mitt Romney contested.

Democrats who sadly are considering jogging to get president in 2016 can be ecstatic that will exploit the actual listings regarding names, technology, in addition to know-how the fact that Obama team amassed, but Plouffe warned that it hasn't been certainly be a when running over like assets.

"For prospects are motivated that will aim to create a grassroots campaign, it isn't going to occur because there exists a variety or even to create hold the finest technology. That's not the way the following works," Plouffe said.

"They have got to build of which sort of emotional lure in order that individuals would like to move out there and commit the time frame and their resources and still provide his or her abilities because they have confidence in someone along with in precisely what you might be offering," your dog said.

"The just reason that that took place for the surface - no matter whether it was 08 and also this kind of time.was general health theorized inside Barack Obama," he said.