by Christi Parsons
Kitty Dukakis has been getting tons of emails from Barack Obama’s campaign asking for her money, but they never seem to want her time.
And that has Mike Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor and presidential nominee, drawing some negative conclusions about the Obama campaign strategy as a whole. He says he’s “baffled” by it.
According to the Boston Globe, Dukakis thinks Obama has not made the most of the crowds that come to hear him speak, nor of the contributors who respond to him on the Internet. At least he hasn’t made the most of one of them.
As evidence, Dukakis points to the fact that his wife has never been asked to run a precinct for the campaign, even though she is a contributor and supporter and gets many on-line communiques from Obama.
Aides to the Illinois senator brag about their grassroots organization, especially in the early-voting states. Kitty Dukakis may not be working for them on the ground, but they say thousands of other people are.One of those people contended with Dukakis’ analysis, which came as he spoke at a college campus this week. Lot of people signed up to help Obama at a recent Boston rally, a student in the audience told Dukakis, and supporters from the state are traveling to New Hampshire to work for the Illinois Democrat.
Says the Globe:
Dukakis shook his head impatiently. The campaign has to be run from the neighborhood, he said, with New Hampshire people canvassing in New Hampshire and Massachusetts people canvassing their own blocks.
“This state is going to be important,” he added, noting that Massachusetts has moved its primary up to Feb. 5. “They should be working here.”