Sentence examples for ground organization from inspiring English sources

While petition success does not necessarily translate into voter affection on Election Day, it can demonstrate the strength of a campaign's ground organization.

But what Mr. Brown, as a Republican in a deep blue state, may lack in ground organization, he makes up for on the stump as a natural-born campaigner who makes a personal connection with voters.

The $15 million he had remaining as of Sept. 30 is helping him build a robust ground organization in Iowa, where he is hoping an early victory will give him a lift in a drawn-out nominating fight.

Joe Trippi, the Dean campaign manager, said he continued to believe that only Mr. Gephardt had a ground organization that rivaled Dr. Dean's for a political event that is heavily dependent on the ability to get voters out.

Mr. McCain, of Arizona, held the advantage early on in South Carolina, building a strong ground organization, only to have to lay off many staff members in the summer.

DES MOINES — Ron Paul's college-aged volunteer army — a core of the powerful ground organization that is the envy of rivals — is descending on Iowa from around the nation to coax people to the state's Republican caucuses as he seeks to pull off what only months ago seemed like an unthinkable victory here on Tuesday.

In my opinion, we should sanction churches and other "on the ground" organizations as forces for good that can empower local communities.

The group became a bridge between campaigns, they said, keeping important supporters primed, a boost in a state where on-the-ground organization means everything.

The rest will be transferred in kind, through on-the-ground organization — and, in that way, Plouffe and his team may end up directing more of the midterm campaigns than he'd like to admit.

This has left operatives and party activists here questioning whether he is relying more on what some of his aides call his "rock star" status than on an aggressive on-the-ground organization.

In many ways, the primary battle here will be a showdown between the substantial advantages Mr. Romney has built through his fund-raising and on-the-ground organization — including a successful early-voting operation that locked in many of his supporters before his loss in South Carolina — and the momentum and grass-roots energy that Newt Gingrich picked up over the last week.