Obama models campaign on Reagan insurgency
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By: David Paul Kuhn
Jul 24, 2007 06:16 PM EST
Awash in money and publicity but behind in the polls, Barack Obama,
advisers say, is planning a classic insurgent's campaign to wrest the
Democratic nomination from Hillary Rodham Clinton -- one that relies
on a surge of momentum from early-state victories and faces a make-or-
break test in the South Carolina primary.
Obama is touting a new and unconventional brand of grass-roots
politics, but his strategy borrows from precedents set by a previous
generation of Democrats such as Jimmy Carter and Gary Hart. His
advisers also invoke as inspiration a surprising Republican: Ronald
Reagan.
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