Tuesday, October 14, 2008

"Great Schlep" pitches Obama to Florida Jews

With many traditionally Democratic Jewish voters reluctant to support Barack Obama, an effort is underway to have younger Jews introduce the candidate and his platform to key Florida voters.

Full story by Patrick Oppmann at CNN:

"The older demographic particularly were being hit with tons and tons of Obama smear e-mails," Wallach said. "If you really want to talk to them in a way that will bring them over to the Obama side, you want to do it one to one, ideally with people they love. And grandparents love no one more than their grandkids."

And so the Great Schlep was born. The idea was that young, Jewish Democrats would flood Florida and convince their elders that voting for Obama was OK...

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