office. politicians have been doing this for years. jay carney also tried to put a little daylight between the white house and organizing for america, which is not the way it was conceived originally. yesterday he tried to say there was some separation there and there was no direct link, but it was supposed to be a place where policy was developed and the message was delivered to the white house. history of the obama operation is if they have the financial advantage, they take advantage of it. regardless. regardless. one of the things about this group, besides the question of access, is they re taking corporate contributions. that s a big change. why are they doing this? why would the president it just seems like he s making his life more complicated politically. why would he do this? i think they want to take the strength of their grassroots operation, their access to money, and try to marry them up so he can succeed in the
machine how to turn out voters and have a grassroots operation and something we used to be good at. i want to put this map back up again and it shows what would have happened had these rules been in place and this is the huffington post of this map. what does this is a of the gop and there are folks inside the party who are considering something like this? well, first, let me just say, i don t know if i completely agree that romney would have necessarily won because if we have different rules then both campaigns would have designed their campaigns accordingly. but that being said, sure. what have we seen time and time again in these last elections and last time it was finding more ways to make it harder for people to cast their votes with voter i.d. and all of the types of other restrictions and now here we are as andrea pointed out barely passed election day and they re looking at new ways,
on the issues that motivated them to get involved with barack obama in the first place. you talked about them, the economy. immigration reform, climate change. all things that we care very deeply about and so as we looked at how to do that, the structure made the most sense. it allows us to coordinate with the white house and continues to run a grassroots operation that takes the fight out of washington and says to people, look, get involved and these are incredibly important issues of our time and let s tackle them. jim, you didn t know this. the new nbc, wall street journal poll, the president s approval rating, a lot lower than his likability numbers. a lot of people like barack obama, the man. they are not wild about his approximately s policies in a lot of instances. how do you think running an organization like this without having the president himself on a ticket. how do you think that s really going to work? well, look.
it s 45,000 ads so far. there are eight groups right now in the state together running eight individual groups running ads. the only way you fight that is grassroots, and we ve got a great grassroots operation. sherrodbrown.com, people can join us. we ve got lots of people that have done everything from small contributions to knocking on doors and doing phone banks, and that s how you beat this kind of money. it s the only way a progressive populist democrat in a state like ohio wins. there s some things i keep worrying about. ohio is one i worry about. i wonder about the secretary of state out there. i wonder about the stumble we had last time, the people kept questioning i m talking about 2004, real questions about the count out in ohio. what do you see? what do you see we have 650 obama lawyers in cuyahoga county being on the lookout for any kind of monkey business out there. what do you hear? what s coming?
the only way you fight that is grassroots, and we ve got a great grassroots operation. sherrodbrown.com, people can join us. we ve got lots of people that have done everything from small contributions to knocking on doors and doing phone banks, and that s how you beat this kind of money. it s the only way a progressive populist democrat in a state as tough as ohio wins. you fight back that way. there s some things i keep worrying about. ohio is one i worry about. i wonder about the secretary of state out there. i wonder about the stumble we had last time, the people kept questioning i m talking about 2004, real questions about the count out in ohio. what do you see? what do you see we have 650 obama lawyers in cuyahoga county being on the lookout for any kind of monkey business out there. what do you hear? what s coming? well, i think in terms of trouble.