Word: campaigners
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...that, Obama is also relying on many of the high-tech grass-roots organizing techniques that worked so well for his presidential campaign. Last weekend the Organizing for America operation that was spun off from his campaign organization held health-care-reform house parties around the country. On Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee launched a new website that it calls the Health Care Action Center. It has tools to help supporters to organize and to share their personal health-care stories, as well as to write letters to editors and contact congressional representatives...
...which is the nation's leading physicians organization, is not the political force that it once was, but its opposition could nonetheless complicate the push for overall reform. So as much as Obama is trying to stay with broad campaign themes emphasizing the larger need for health-care reform, he's also going to have to spell out more clearly where he stands on some of its tougher questions. In fact, that kind of reckoning may come as early as Monday, when he reaches the next stop on his health-care campaign trail - a speech at the AMA's 158th...
...seems, over the fact that in the 1980s, the gray-bearded 67-year-old was at the heart of a regime that executed dissidents, took U.S. hostages and launched a fatwa against author Salman Rushdie. New - though notoriously unreliable - polling suggests Mousavi has drawn ahead of Ahmadinejad after a campaign marked by scathing ad hominem attacks and rambunctious rallies. But Western onlookers weary of Ahmadinejad's antagonizing would be wise not to expect a sea change in Iranian policy. Though he has stressed the need to engage with the U.S., Mousavi has indicated he would not budge on Iran...
...everyone is buying it. "All bodies executing the elections are uniformly pro-Ahmadinejad," protested former Interior Minister Ali-Akbar Mohtashamipour, who currently heads the Mousavi campaign's election-supervision committee, at a press conference on Wednesday. "Of course, no interference in the votes can take place except in favor of their own candidate," he said. Mohtashamipour also expressed concerns that Ahmadinejad had received a fatwa to slander some of the Islamic republic's stalwarts, like Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, in televised debates in recent weeks, implying that he could attain further sanctions from hard-line clerics to meddle with votes...
...results are likely to be meddled with only to a certain extent. "If voter participation is really high, in other words, if the margin of votes between, say, Ahmadinejad and Mousavi is big, interference will not yield decisive results," says Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, a member of Karroubi's central campaign committee. There are 45,713 polling booths across Iran today, and the candidates - Ahmedinejad, Mousavi, Karroubi and former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezai - can post one observer at each of the polling booths. Once the votes are counted and recorded at the stations, under the oversight of the observers...