I can't speak to how they handle it at state/local level, though even there they would need some way to make fundraising and other campaign calls, emails, etc. without using governmental resources. In most cases, I imagine they could simply go off-site, but I wouldn't be surprised to know many larger states/municipalities might have aides who carry political phones in addition to anything issued by the government.

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I can't speak to how they handle it at state/local level, though even there they would need some way to make fundraising and other campaign calls, emails, etc. without using governmental resources. In most cases, I imagine they could simply go off-site, but I wouldn't be surprised to know many larger states/municipalities might have aides who carry political phones in addition to anything issued by the government.

As a specific example, when I worked on Capitol Hill years ago, we had a database of people who had written letters the the Congressman I worked for. We could contact them for official purposes, but we could not then pass it on to the campaign during election season.

Obama could likely transfer the list INTO the government, but he could not then take an updated list back out for the 2012 campaign. The more likely scenario is that the list will be maintained for political purposes. The Obama campaign and the DNC can advocate on behalf of the President's policies, so the communications can be unfettered (for the most part) and parallel what his Administration is saying. Of course, that would be a harder list to grow for non-partisan communications.