Washington Bureau

Texting the Difference

Comparing Sarah Palin’s Leesburg rally today to Barack Obama’s there last week, one thing stands out: how the campaigns are calling their supporters to action in the homestretch of the race.

At Obama events, organizers ask attendants to text the letters “VA” to a campaign phone number as a way for the campaign to call them back or text them on Election Day to remind people to vote. At the Palin rally, there were signs and stickers to grab on the way out, but nobody giving such a direct appeal for action that has become a hallmark of Obama’s field organizers.

Some Palin event participants said they thought it was odd they weren’t asked to do more than vote in the campaign’s final push, but others, walking out with an armful of McCain-Palin yard signs, shrugged off the difference in how the two camps are mobilizing their masses.

“I’m sure people’s minds are made up,” said Andrea Stock of Leesburg, a McCain supporter who said she talks to Obama-backers, but figures there’s no convincing them now.

-Neil H. Simon
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