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laurenhat

of PACs, politics, and parties

Feb 21, 2008 15:00

Strangely, given my dislike of mingling with crowds of strangers, my loathing of making phone calls to strangers, my irritation at most phone calls that I receive from people I don't know, and my general disinclination to host things, I am thinking of hosting a MoveOn.org party on 3/2 to gather Obama supporters together and phone people in Texas to ( Read more... )

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Bafflement! Consternation! hissilliness February 23 2008, 05:12:29 UTC

I was vaguely surprised to see that MoveOn was getting involved in this particularly primary battle, so I went to their website to see if they talked about their reasons.

According to the website of the famously net-savvy MoveOn.org, current issues they are working on include:

* Firing Karl Rove

* Firing Tom DeLay

and

* Who should replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court

According to their press page, they have had no new press releases since September 2006.

And no, I was able to find no explanation or discussion of their choosing to endorse Obama.

Whathello?

Re: Bafflement! Consternation! laurenhat February 23 2008, 07:43:04 UTC

Hoo boy. That's net savvy right there, all right. *grimace*

MoveOn polled their members about the Democratic candidates a few times. I don't believe there was a strong favorite when Edwards was still in the race. After he dropped out, they polled everyone again and said if either candidate got at least 2/3 of the vote (I believe that was the threshold) then they'd endorse that candidate. Or maybe they also polled everyone about whether they should officially make an endorsement. I don't recall. But anyway, that's how it happened, to the extent that I know it.

OT: I just recently ran across Big Bunny cartoons. Now I am enlightened!

zdamiana February 23 2008, 19:22:40 UTC

I've made a few calls for Obama through his website. Mostly they were to WA because it seemed that a lot of Washingtonian democrats didn't realize that only the caucus would count toward the nomination (even though they had a primary too). I also made a few calls to Nebraska, but once people I reached started telling me that they had just returned home from their caucus I stopped ( ... )

laurenhat February 24 2008, 02:36:13 UTC

Thanks, this seems like really good advice! And it's useful to hear about your experiences. I've decided to go ahead and host the party, and I'm looking forward to it.