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ONE FOR ALL & ALL FOR ONE. Reading the 1995 Chicago Reader piece on Obama that's been tagged several times on this site already, this passage jumped out at me:
In 1992 Obama took time off to direct Project Vote, the most successful grass-roots voter-registration campaign in recent city history. Credited with helping elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the U.S. Senate, the registration drive, aimed primarily at African-Americans, added an estimated 125,000 voters to the voter rolls--even more than were registered during Harold Washington's mayoral campaigns.I've always wondered how it came to be that two out of three of the African-Americans elected to the Senate since reconstruction came from the same state, and why that state was Illinois, of all places. This passage suggests an answer: Barack Obama's organizing work. Impressive.
--Garance Franke-Ruta
