Obama plans general election team

Tue May 20, 10:00 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama is quietly planning to take over the Democratic National Committee and assemble a multistate team for the general election, the latest sign that he is putting rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and the nomination fight behind him.

Top Obama organizer Paul Tewes is in discussions to run the party, several Democratic officials said Tuesday.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said no final decisions have been made on general election plans and that such decisions would be premature with Obama yet to clinch the nomination.

Tewes is one of the leading architects of Obama's success in the marathon Democratic primary race. He engineered Obama's critical victory in the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3, which gave Obama the upper hand and Clinton was never able to fully overcome.

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The Obama campaign also is in discussions with staffers who will be dispatched to various swing states, but holding off on making announcements until Obama has won the nomination. Officials who spoke to The Associated Press about the discussions insisted on anonymity because the campaign wanted to keep the deliberations quiet.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080521/ap_on_el_pr/obama_nomination_plans

:woohoo:

kidding, but I wonder how some hardcore Dean partisans think about his being pushed aside.

"Democratic and Republican nominees traditionally install loyalists at their party committees even though it is technically headed by its chairman — in this case Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor and a presidential candidate four years ago."

He doesn't hate Dean. There is no indication of that in the article or this post.

He's doing what all presidential candidates do.

as I said.