Move.Org will endorse Obama

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Per announcement on MSNBC

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. Do they then lose their 527 status?

:shrug:

[GalleryGod]

5. Not to worry...we banked $32 millon in January!

Can you feel the Earth move under your feet?


Any link to the hot,fresh SEIU Obama endorsement (from JRE) ???????????????

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

10. Well, I guess I can look forward to Moveon swftboating Sen Clinton. So that's where my money went.

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. For those who wish to inform Moveon.org how stupid they are for choosing a candidate in the

PRIMARIES, here's a link. I've been a member of Moveon.org for years and years. Have donated money to them and they have just alienated me and every other Hillary supporter! WTF are they doing choosing a candidate in the Primaries? I also didn't get a ballot to vote and I am a member!:grr:



http://pol.moveon.org/feedback/fb/form.html?tp=suggest

[stillcool]

19. Did you check your email?

Also, the notice that they were doing this was all over the net. I'm sorry you don't like the results.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

23. Feedback link, I'll let them know unequivocally. When was the "vote" email sent?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

22. Thank you, I have given them a substantial amount of money, for me anyway, and this is BS.

Thanks for the link!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

25. Done, thanks for the link.

[GalleryGod]

2. YIKES !!! Can you feel that 9.9 on the seismograph in California !?!

[jakem]

3. BIG!

[GalleryGod]

7. As we old timers on DU are wont to scream, "This is HUGH!!!!11111

:yourock:

[Larkspur]

4. I voted for Hillary in that poll because I had no option for "No Endorsement"

Wonder how many MoveOn.org members actually voted in that poll?

[NJSecularist]

6. You mean Moveon?

I don't think this is a big deal either way. Moveon's supporters were already voting for Obama either way.

[Exultant Democracy]

29. you would be surprised the average MoveOn member is a 53 year old white woman

There is a good chance that if they had given an endorsment it would have been for Clinton.

[abburdlen]

8. Breaking: Moveon Members Endorses Obama 71-29

per Openleft.com

wow

[Renew Deal]

13. I had a feeling that Obama would get over 66%

I just did.

[featherman]

9. Obama had to pull over 2/3 of the online vote for Move.on to

endorse. I guess he did so.

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. I didn't get my Moveon.org ballot and I have been a Moveon.org supporter for YEARS.

I'm bummed.:(

[Renew Deal]

14. Check your mail

It came yesterday around 1PM EST

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. I did check my mail...all day long yesterday and never got a ballot. I donate MONTHLY to them. NOT

ANYMORE. I'm finished with them. They should NEVER choose a candidate in our primaries. They should wait until we have a candidate.

[marlakay]

27. You should have emailed them

I emailed them yesterday to say I didn't get the email. Then I got it and voted but when I checked back later a "real person not form letter" wrote me back to say that they saw I voted. So if I hadn't got it they would have fixed me up.

You can't complain if you do nothing...thats the same way I feel about politics. I tell my husband all the time if you are unwilling to volunteer and be involved like me you can't complain. Sorry...

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

28. Yep, it's only a third of their funding they'll lose over this. Why should they care?

:shrug:

[totodeinhere]

30. Are people that petty?

Just because they endorsed Obama everybody who doesn't support Obama will not contribute to them anymore? How petty that is. They have every right to endorse any progressive candidate they want to.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

31. As someone who has donated money to moveon for years, I am not donating money for them to attack

a Democratic candidate for president. And I would have been just as pissed if they'd endorsed Clinton.

So, no more money from me, petty as that sounds.

[totodeinhere]

32. Endorsing one candidate is not the same as attacking the other.

Lots of times organizations endorse one candidate while praising the other one that they didn't endorse. I am sure that Moveon will enthusiastically support either candidate in the general.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

33. So you'd also have stopped donating if they'd endorsed Clinton?

"So, no more money from me, petty as that sounds."

It'd be petty if I believed you ever really sent them a dime.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

34. Absolutely. If they endorsed Clinton, it would be the same thing. Using funds now that

could be used in the GE to promote our GE nominee.

And, I have sent far more than a dime. The last time I donated it was the most money I've ever sent to a campaign or organization, during the Petreus ad controversy. The fact that Congress passed a resolution to ban their ad sent me to the computer whipping out the debit card and making as big a financial statement as I could, at the time.

I donated in 2004 and 2006, during the elections as well. I haven't signed up as a monthly contributor, though.

Until today, it felt like it was an investment that paid off over and over. Now, instead of focusing on crafting the ads and solidifying the netroots efforts to defeat the R's in the GE, we will see money and time spent to promote one Dem candidate over the other.

[davsand]

12. Is that Move ON dot org?

I'm a bit confused here, usually the "On" is included. Goggle did not turn up anything under Move dot org.

:shrug:

Sorry for my confusion!


Laura

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. Yes, it is. n/t

[stillcool]

16. Wow...I voted..

I'm sure most other DU'ers did as well.

[Renew Deal]

20. I wasn't sure if Obama could get to 66%

It seemed a bit high. 71% is very good.

[stillcool]

24. I didn't think so either...

I thought they probably wouldn't be able to endorse either one. I guess perceptions can be deceiving.

[jlake]

21. This is great news!

[Beacool]

26. I don't think that it's a bad thing for Hillary not to get their endorsement.

MoveOn is too far left for a lot of independents and centrists, many of whom were not too happy with the General Petraeus ad last year. So, it's a loss for her in some quarters and a win in others. Either way, I don't think that it'll matter much in the long run.