{"id":12572,"date":"2012-02-02T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12572"},"modified":"2012-02-02T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:05:08","slug":"obama-campaign-taps-stefanie-brown-to-lead-black-voter-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12572","title":{"rendered":"Obama Campaign Taps Stefanie Brown To Lead Black Voter Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> re-election campaign named a 31-year-old former field director for the NAACP to be African-American Vote Director for the campaign&#8217;s Operation Vote outreach effort.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stefanie Brown<\/strong>, formerly the national field director for the NAACP in Baltimore, will direct the campaign&#8217;s Black voter outreach efforts. Operation Vote is the campaign&#8217;s national drive to get Black, female, Latino, LGBT, veteran and young voters to the polls. <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> won an overwhelming majority of Black votes in 2008, and most experts believe he&#8217;ll need a similar groundswell among African-Americans to win in November.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brown<\/strong>, a graduate of Howard University, served as both national field director and head of the NAACP&#8217;s Youth &amp; College division. As national field director, she is credited with leading an effort that the NAACP says registered more than 200,000 voters for the 2008 and 2010 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Barack Obama re-election campaign named a 31-year-old former field director for the NAACP to be African-American Vote Director for the campaign&#8217;s Operation Vote outreach effort. Stefanie Brown, formerly the national field director for the NAACP in Baltimore, will direct the campaign&#8217;s Black voter outreach efforts. Operation Vote is the campaign&#8217;s national drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}