Kentucky Democrats campaigning for Obama and the future [View all]

While many have already conceded Kentucky to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, local Democrats still see merit in campaigning for President Barack Obama in Kentucky.

Kentucky Democrats say they hope to combat the view that Kentucky is becoming more Republican with get out the vote efforts and outreach to youth groups in Kentucky where Obama in the primary only received 58 percent of the vote and “uncommitted” received 42 percent.

Many Kentucky Dems have volunteered on Obama’s campaign across the Ohio River, but some will stay in Kentucky to go door-to-door and send out mailers, said Col Owens, Kenton County Democratic Chairman.

“There’s a conventional wisdom that they should go to Ohio to work because it’s a swing state,” Owens said. “I feel very strongly that we have to have a strategy directed toward the immediate election, but we also have to work to the future. You can always learn looking at history; 30 years ago, Kenton County was a completely Democratic County. For a variety of reasons, it evolved into being a majority Republican County. In order to counter that, realistically, we have to work for candidates very hard. We also have to understand that we have to expand the infrastructure of our party in order to grow.”

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