The first job President Barack Obama had out of college was community organizer for labor unions and other civic groups on the south side of Chicago.
President Obama used grassroots community organization techniques — Saul Alinsky-style organizing tactics – for union votes, neighborhood improvement and for lobbying city hall in Chicago. Most of these efforts involved “turning people out”: whether at the union hall, the church steps or the polling place. Delivering people to precincts is what David Axelrod, now the president’s chief democratic policy strategist, does best.
Word cloud from MSPA blog, "The Rambler"
