BATTLEGROUND STATES
The campaign targets cities with a population of approximately 20-50,000
in each of the following four swing states:
- Colorado - 20 electoral votes
- Missouri - 11 electoral votes
- Nevada - 5 electoral votes
- Ohio - 20 electoral votes
You can learn more on our emerging blog at http://blog.localvoicesforobama.com/
or on youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2uIB2Xyysw
FEATURED
VOICES
IN
NEVADA
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VIRGINIA CITY
Karen Wright has a passion for our first amendment rights and our education. Her and her husband live in the small town of Virginia City where she has a home business dealing books online. Despite the fact that she has been in the book business for 18 years, the downturned economy of Nevada doesn't make it possible for her to have a storefront in their historic mining town.
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PAIUTE-SHOSHONE RESERVATION
Sandy Austin is a Native American woman living with her son on the Paiute-Shoshone Reservation outside Fallon Nevada. Her health is the most important thing in life since her kidney failure. She goes regularly for dialysis and is on the waiting list for a kidney and a pancreas. She uses her tribal skills to make beaded bracelets and handbags emblazoned with 'Obama'. I ordered 3 of them.
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FALLON
Keith Howell from Fallon Nevada owns a rock crushing equipment repair business with his wife and son. His small business is among the first to feel the economic downturn because as he puts it, if they're not building houses, their not pouring concrete and if they're not pouring concrete, there is no need for crushed rock, and if they're not crushing rock, the machines don't break and they don't need me.
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Check out all the Local Voices on THE BLOG!! |
Local Voices will be filmed in small communities in battleground states such as Missouri, Colorado, Nevada, and Ohio, where local voters who support Obama are asked to speak candidly about the issues they find most pertinent to their daily lives, and why Obama is their candidate.
Central to the success of Local Voices is that people recognize themselves in these short real-people ads. Americans in communities that are often overlooked will see their own towns and neighbors articulating their support of Obama through the perspective of that particular region's struggles and identity.
We thank all the Local Voices across the states that we have visited.
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