This article argues that partisanship is important to democratic engagement. I agree. The Obama campaign was organised on a partisan basis - as people wanted an end to Republican rule. Polite bipartisanship will not engage grassroots activists. You need strong partisan feelings and organisation to engage lots of people. This, of course, doesn't mean that the Obama campaign was highly partisan. It presented itself in a bipartisan way as floating voters like that. But, to energise the base, it needed to be clearly part of the Democratic Party movement against 8 years of Bush-Cheney.
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