Why David Sometimes Wins

Barack Obama is indebted to Cesar Chavez's trailblazing community organizing strategies.

By Ethan Porter

Barack Obama's victory last November, improbable though it was, did not come out of nowhere. Rather, his campaign was indebted to the lessons and traditions of community organizing. Of course, before he became a politician,Obama organized the churches of Chicago's South Side. But there's [RETURN TO ARTICLE]