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The goal was to create “neighbor-to-neighbor” campaigns using local people but professional directors and crews, Hirsch said.
“The vision was for it to be small town,” Hedlund said, adding that Joplin “hit perfectly with the vision we were looking for.” Doing politics Hirsch and the film crew spent time with Snodgrass at his farm and business, Snodgrass Collision Center, letting him talk unscripted about his own values and views and why he supports Obama. “I don’t do the politics real well,” said Snodgrass. “I am a student of politics, I just don’t get involved with it.” He admits that making an ad supporting a Democrat in a Republican stronghold could bring on some heat, and he’s taking a ribbing — some of it serious — from people who feel differently. But so far it hasn’t been too bad. Three other area residents also were chosen, including Kyle Snodgrass, Dana’s adult son; Fred Dalton, an Obama campaign volunteer from Joplin; and Peggy Richardson, a Webb City businesswoman who recently bought the Bradbury-Bishop Deli in Webb City. Richardson, 46, noted she also has a stepson slated to go to Iraq soon. Although she was chosen, she added: “I’m still undecided. I can’t say I’m voting for Obama and I can’t say I’m voting for McCain.” “We haven’t cut Peggy’s,” added Hirsch, who explained that she was chosen because she was signing papers to close on the business the day they were filming. “This is like the American Dream coming true,” Hirsch said of Richardson buying her own business. Media moves Asked if the Republicans have similar plans with less than two weeks to go before the election, Tina Hervey, communication director for the Missouri Republican Party, said that’s not possible locally. “We don’t have the money or capacity to do what he’s doing. We just don’t have the money to hire an Emmy-award winning or non-Emmy Award winning director to film videos for YouTube.” Obama raised a record $150 million in September, and Hervey notes that his fund-raising was the result of a broken pledge to abide by federal campaign spending limits. 
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