western. get a steak and a beer, maybe two and listen so some pretty prominent democrats. in this case two members of the key members of the white house sin terms of political stratey for the president. david axelrod and david plouff. point hadr obama at that still quite substantial national following as far as the media is concerned. then the following year senator obama announced that, yes, indeed, he was running for president and then approximately 20 months after that picked up the iowa caucuses and then waded his way through the primary season and the gener election. in 2006 and 2008 the state party grew in terms of the v registered democratic voters and grew to a point where they were at one point in 2008 better than 100,000 more mocrats than they were