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• Corrente | Boldly shrill ...: ... ofb Barack Obama earned the endorsement of MoveOn which claims to have 1.7M members in Super Tuesday states. ...
• TAPPED | The American Prospect (#): ... The endorsement comes as the result of an online poll, which he won with 70.4 of the vote to Clinton's 29.6 percent. As Ari Melber points out over on The Nation blog, the big boon here is not so much the endorsement, but the leg work that comes with it. ...
• The Mahablog (#): ... And if you watched the post-debate show on MSNBC, you were treated to John Amato of Crooks and Liars, who rocked. After polling its members, Moveon has endorsed Sen. Obama for the Dem nomination. I won’t predict how the votes will go Super Tuesday. Truly, this election cycle nobody knows anything. ...
• skippy the bush kangaroo (#): barack "to the future" obama has received the coveted endorsement of moveon.org. the nation : today barack obama earned the endorsement of moveon, one of the largest grassroots membership organizations in the united states, after clobbering hillary clinton by 40 percent in internet balloting. obama led the ...
• The Raw Story | A rational voice - Alternative news: ... budget will 'virtually freeze most domestic programs' MoveOn.org endorses Obama - Paul destroying GOP rivals in ...
• The Carpetbagger Report - Commentary and Analysis on Politics in America by Steve Benen (#): ... Howard Dean came close — so the group remained on the sidelines. This year, it nearly produced the same result: to win MoveOn’s support, a candidate would need to clear a 66% super-majority. Surprisingly enough, Barack Obama got the support he needed , beating Hillary Clinton among MoveOn members, 70.4% to 29.6%. “We’ve learned that the key to achieving change in Washington without compromising core values is having a galvanized electorate to back you up,” ...
• The Hotline's Blogometer (#): ... If you betray our institutions, don't expect our institutional support during primaries. Allegiance needs to flow both ways in order for an alliance to be functional." UPDATE: At 11:43 AM, Melber reports that MoveOn will endorse Obama: "Obama led the final tally 70.4% to 29.6%, clearing the supermajority required for the endorsement. ...
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera (#): ... Employees International Union (with 650,000 members) have both endorsed Barack Obama now that John Edwards has suspended his campaign. Several news outlets are reporting that moveon.org has endorsed Barack Obama . There is not yet any confirmation on the organization's web site, though. ...
• D-Day (#): ... That will add a lot of organizational and GOTV muscle in the largest state. And so will the very big endorsement from Moveon.org , whose members chose Obama by a 70%-30% margin. There are a half-million MoveOn members just in California. " ...
• Liberty Street (#): ... I thank them for their support and look forward to working with their members in the weeks and months ahead." The Nation quotes Eli Pariser , MoveOn's executive director: "We've learned that the key to achieving change in Washington without compromising core values is having a galvanized electorate to back you up ... and Barack Obama has our members 'fired up and ready ...
• Group News Blog (#): ... The odds were high it would not this year either. A two-thirds super-majority is needed to endorse. Yet Obama took those odds, beating Clinton in the membership of MoveOn which voted, by over 40%. The Nation Obama welcomed the endorsement on Friday. "In just a few years, the members of MoveOn have once again demonstrated that real change comes not from the top-down, but from the bottom-up. ...