LOL. As soon as you find yourself saying such things become worried. It’s nonsensical to place faith in some hidden wisdom held by “your betters.”

Even something as prosaic as Occam’s Razor says that since the 50 State Strategy concluded its efforts, its being closed down due to lack of perceived value at this time.

It’s a DNC engine and they’re mostly concerned with national elections, not local ones.

I don’t think, with all of its incredible fundraising prowess and discipline, that the Obama campaign would lend its name to a solicitation for an idea that it didn’t believe in.

Now, I don’t doubt for a second that they want to put some fresh faces into these slots around the country, that the easiest way to do that is to ‘end’ the State Partnership and relaunch as something else, and I think there’s an argument to be made for that (these organizers have derived about as much human capital benefit as they’re going to see from it, the need to keep developing new talent, etc.), but this would seem to be a rookie mistake that the past 20 months have shown the Obama campaign to largely be adept at avoiding.

Seems to me like there’s a bigger vision that we might not be privy to just yet.