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community organizing helps throughout the campaign. >> call these folks up and tell them you will go with them. >> the two campaigns have pursued markedly different strategies. clinton has focused her attention on the big prizes, new york, new jersey, california, where large populations mean lots of convention delegates. obama is hoping to run the board. he's visited 15 states in the past week, including red states like kansas and idaho. >> they told me there weren't any democrats in idaho. but i didn't believe them. >> since the 1960s, the democrats had catered to this white, moderate middle. but obama decides to appeal to a new generation of young folks and to usually alienated communities of color. >> how's it going st. louis? >> and he was able to change the democratic map and really open it up again. >> turnout is off the charts heavy. ten thousand voters in one
york, new jersey, california, where large populations mean lots of convention delegates. obama is hoping to run the board. he's visited 15 states in the past week, including red states like kansas and idaho. >> they told me there weren't any democrats in idaho. but i didn't believe them. >> since the 1960s, the democrats had catered to this white, moderate middle. but obama decides to appeal to a new generation of young folks and to usually alienated communities of color. >> how's it going st. louis? >> and he was able to change the democratic map and really open it up again. >> turnout is off the charts heavy. ten thousand voters in one county the first day. ten times the turnout in the last presidential election. >> obama's campaign also harnessed the internet as an organizing and fundraising tool. >> over $100 million online from 1.5 million people. >> it allowed him to compete
>> since the 1960s, the democrats have catered to this white moderate middle, but obama decides to appeal to a new generation of young folks and to usually alienated communities of color. >> how's it going st. louis? >> and he was able to change the democratic map and really open it up again. >> turnout is off the charts heavy. 10,000 voters in one county the first day, ten times the turnout in the last presidential election. >> obama's campaign also harn s harnessed the internet as an organizing and fund-raising tool. it allowed him to compete well past super tuesday out spending clinton every step of the way. >> obama not only has momentum, he's starting to pull away. in the delegate count he has a sizable lead. >> we're turning out to be a scrappy little team. >> barack obama was the first black candidate who really had a chance to win. he was cruising along, and then out come these tapes.