"Listening, listening, listening. Listening is the No. 1 tool," she says. They hold a mock Iowa caucus in which campers learn to try to lure other candidates' supporters to Obama during re-alignment periods.

Building alliances
Just about all the candidates' campaigns do some version of this volunteer training but others don't have the candidates' own backgrounds to draw on in mapping out the training regimen. Alinsky had been dead for a decade when Obama came to organize in Chicago in the '80s, but his disciples were here ready to train him as Woodards is ready to train the volunteers.

.....legendary agitator (read Marxist) Saul Alinsky.

Obama's hero:

“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the
very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and
who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or
which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against
the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his
own kingdom -- Lucifer.”