Obama’s Hibbing office opens today

In about 90 minutes (sorry, late on this one) Barack Obama opens its Hibbing office and hosts its first Veterans for Obama meeting on the Iron Range. The meeting is at noon today at the Obama/DFL headquarters at 107 E. Howard Street. The HQ is somewhat symbolic in nature as the 5th SD DFL has operated there for some time, but it will be nice having a permanent national campaign presence through the home stretch of this election.

I don’t know if the Republicans are going to open a formal campaign HQ up here. Usually, their volunteers organize out of someone’s home or business. GOP efforts on the Range are largely surgical, picking off their voters using direct mail, phones and leaflets. Because of the Range’s history of voting 2-1 DFL, the Democrats tend to run pure reinforcement/turnout operations.

UPDATE: I just got another press release. There will be convention watch parties tomorrow night where people can gather to watch Obama’s acceptance speech. Here are the northern Minnesota locations:

Bemidji:

Beltrami County DFL Headquarters
422 4th Street SE
Bemidji, MN

Chisholm:
Tom and Jerry’s Bar
201 W Lake St
Chisholm, MN

Duluth:
Dan Hartman’s Home
1005 E 10th St
Duluth, MN

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