MoveOn Endorses Obama
I honestly didn’t think either of them would make the 66% threshold but Obama nailed it:
In a resounding vote today, MoveOn.org Political Action’s members nationwide voted to endorse Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for President. The group, with 3.2 million members nation-wide and over 1.7 million members in Super Tuesday states, will immediately begin to mobilize on behalf of Senator Obama. The vote favored Senator Obama to Senator Clinton by 70.4% to 29.6%.
This is a pretty significant endorsement with Super Tuesday looming as it represents actual elbow grease as opposed to ephemeral influence. As OpenLeft’s Matt Stoller notes:
I just spoke with Ilyse Hogue, communications director for Moveon, and she tells me that the group is going to mobilize volunteers for Obama in key states and use call for change technology. That’s the stuff that lets their members do phone-banking with their browsers to targeted individuals, and often what Moveon will do with this is have Moveon members in non-key states call other Moveon members in key states for GOTV.
This could be huge.
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But, this also gives the right wing a huge weapon to keep hitting him over and over and over again with. They hate Move On.
I don’t think MoveOn gives them anything they didn’t already have since he’s been consistently against the war and they’re going to paint him as a white flag-waving liberal no matter what. Clinton would have had the tougher road with their endorsement because of their over-the-top “Betray Us” ad and her “suspension of disbelief” comment. MoveOn is arguably going out on a limb here since he was the one who skipped the vote to condemn them, while Clinton voted against it despite coming under heavy fire from Giuliani back when they were both the presumptive nominees for their respective parties.