Obama Nation: All 50 States

According to Obama Girl, "It's becoming Obama Nation!"

Barack Obama's Campaign is the first in my life to run a campaign in all 50 states. They are not throwing out any votes or ignoring any communities because supposedly they are "on the other side." Barack Obama does not believe in red states and blue states: He believes in America! His staff and volunteers receive training in the three tenets of his philosophy:

* respect * empower * include *

Obama's deputy campaign manager, Steve Hildebrand, announced that:

"unprecedented grassroots energy during the primary means that the list of competitive states will be longer than ever before -- and it will include states like Virginia and Montana that aren't traditionally within reach for a Democratic presidential candidate." He also said that "in every single state, our staff will build volunteer capacity that will provide help where we need it and impact races up and down the ballot this November."

Click here for an interactive map of the United States (from PBS), or this one from The New York Times, with projected results from all of the states. There are more states in play than before, and some of them are: Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, and New Hampshire. Republican strongholds such as South & North Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana are open to change, and through the efforts of local organizers in the South, Barack may take those states as well! 1n 1996, Bill Clinton won Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, and basically the whole Midwest. Especially with the Clintons campaigning by his side, Barack Obama's message of change and hope will be felt throughout our nation. As MLK put it:

Let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!