For the first time in it's history, MoveOn members have voted to endorse a Presidental candidate.
MoveOn Throws Progressive Weight Behind Barack Obama.
3.2 Million Members Nationwide Mobilize to Get Out the Progressive Vote for Senator Obama
Group Has Over 1.7 Million Members In Super Tuesday States
http://moveon.org/press/pr/obamaendorsementrelease.html
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Hi Jean,
I like Barack Obama as a person -- he seems like a great guy -- but the endorsement by Move On is a warning that his political ideas are way to the left.
But it’s a lot of very energetic people that will vote. I‘ll bet the turnout Tuesday is HUGE. This has been a fun election.
MoveOn supports a number of progressive causes; they are noisy change-agents with some members that feel frustrated by Washington and “politics-as-usual”. Okay.
Obama got the California SEIU endorsement today also (650,000 members). Some people say SEIU uses some questionable tactics to support working families. Okay.
Endorsements rally people.
Will the few people that change their mind about Obama because of the MoveOn or SEIU endorsement actually vote for Hillary? I doubt it.
So strategically it’s a win because a huge percent of the 3.85 million MoveOn/SEIU members will rally to the cause and vote for Obama.
Hi Jean,
Tuesday will be very exciting. What happens if Hillary doesn't win and Obama takes the lead and momentum once again? Will she forget about being friendly and attack again?
Also, the GOP side is getting interesting with a rumor that Ron Paul might throw his support to Mike Huckabee if Super Tuesday turns out to be a dud. Who knows if it is true, but it's fun to see what might happen.
Then, there's always the McCain - Romney fight on the talk radio shows.
This is starting to get interesting.
I was forced to check out of the blog world for a couple days this week, and here I see that you two have been having an animated conversation in which I would love to join.
First, let me re-iterate, my main goal is to make sure that Hillary is not elected. Now that doesn't mean I'll support Barack, for me he's way way too far left.
But it does mean that we need the strongest republican with regards to electability, not conservative credentials.
For me it is not about supporting a candidate because of their position on any specific issue and I am not going to filter my choice based on gender, race or religion.
No one person can solve the issues we face; it will take a collective effort and compromise. We need someone that can lead.
I grew up in a family of entrepreneur-types, Republican’s who were INVOLVED. I have many childhood memories of floating elephants, stump speeches and smoke-filled cocktail parties. This is one of the few times in my adult life I have been energized and mesmerized by the campaign process.
I believe that it is Omaba’s involvement in the election that has resulted in record numbers at the polls, people want to care and it is good they are getting involved. And he took the lead when the Clintons attempted to dirty-it-up, the single biggest turnoff to public involvement. Their small-minded negative jabs at him damaged her. Good.
We are doing things differently this time; it has been fascinating to watch.
I am disillusioned with government and big business pillaging. The fake WMD, Cheney/Halliburton, Exxon profits, the dude at Countywide and his $37 million bonus, highly profitable health insurance companies led by grossly overpaid CEO’s forcing their sick customer into bankruptcy.
And so on.
People are skeptical about loyalty and trust, there is a growing divide of haves and have-nots; we have record levels of depression, obesity, chronic illness etc.
Aren’t we supposed to leave the world a better place?
Is political “experience” really is good thing anymore? Who wants four more polarizing years of “investigations” into Fill-in-the-blank’s behavior?
Look where it has gotten us.
Change will take a collective effort, we need to get rid of business-as-usual and support the candidate that can (and is) thinking of out-of the-box ways to rally people into caring enough to come up with new approaches to resolving the issues we face.
Jean, I love your passion that's for sure.
It would appear, after last night's results that I get my choice on the Republican side: John Mccain.
On the Democrat side it sure looks like for the first time in 50 years our primary right here in Indiana may actually matter. Some Republicans are actually talking about crossing over and voting on the "dark" side to make sure they get the opponent they want.
I will continue to re-interate that it is my hope that Senator John Mccain both get the nomination and face Senator Hillary Clinton in November ... and of course I'd prefer that she lose.
So what do you think after Super Tuesday, do you think Obama can beat Billary? If so, do you think he can beat McCain?
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