Obama Benefits From MoveOn's $88 Million
President-elect Barack Obama wasn’t the only one who walked away with a victory on Tuesday night. Progressive grassroots political network MoveOn.org also patted itself on the back for encouraging more than 4.5 million members to contribute $88 million to the Illinois Democrat's White House race. The group endorsed Obama in February and since that time has organized a million MoveOn members to work in field efforts in coordination with the Obama campaign.
The breakdown:
▪ MoveOn and its members contributed $58 million-plus directly to Obama
▪ Raised and spent more than $30 million in independent election efforts
▪ Delivered up to 600,000 battleground state volunteers
▪ Delivered 400,000 volunteers from non-battleground states
▪ Added a million young members from June to Sept. and mobilized them
▪ Registered 500,000-plus young Obama supporters in battleground states
“Our members sense the opportunity to achieve things that seemed improbable if not impossible only a year ago," MoveOn's Eli Pariser said. "For our members, this is the culmination of a decade of work to build a progressive, people-driven politics in America." Pariser added that Obama will face daunting challenges from the day he takes office but his group looks forward to being part of "the enormous wave of civic and political engagement that his presidency has inspired and that will enable him to achieve the things that have been on the top of his agenda and ours."
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