When he joined Mr. Obama's quixotic campaign, he was an easy fit among the earnest, grass-roots crowd.
Republican Herman Cain met voters for the first time since sex harassment claims engulfed his upstart presidential bid as an aggressively supportive grass-roots crowd came out Thursday to cheer him and jockey with a horde of media.
It is a strange hybrid, recalling such disparate strands of our recent politics as George H. W. Bush's thousand points of light, George W. Bush's compassionate conservatism, Ron Paul's libertarianism, and Barack Obama's emphasis on the grass roots and crowd-sourcing.
OXON HILL, Md .– Mitt Romney received an overwhelmingly warm welcome here at the Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, defying predictions that he might get the cold shoulder from a grass-roots crowd, some of whom had their doubts about him as the Republican nominee.
The big guys should do the big guy thing (with integrity) and leave the grass roots efforts to the DIY crowd.
A Food Network spinoff, the Cooking Channel, aims at a hipper crowd interested in the grass roots of food culture.
Called the Cooking Channel, it is lining up low-key programs targeted at a hipper crowd interested in the grass roots of food culture.
Still, the bureaucracy often doesn't work at the grass roots, and I found many Venezuelan children whom local schools refused to admit because they were already too crowded.
"I have come to the conclusion that among all of the candidates," Mr. Gore declared to a crowd in Iowa, "Howard Dean and you have managed to do a better job of igniting enthusiasm at the grass roots all across the United States of America".
At his rally, and at the debate itself, Ellison commanded larger crowds of supporters than Perez but repeatedly refused to portray him as a threat to the grass roots.
