The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

If I was Obama, I'd be very upset at this one. This group did a quick and dirty poll of members and within a day of that, posted an endorsement. Not scientific.

Since I'm voting for Hillary, I think it's great! If they had endorsed her, it would have hurt her in the general election.

This is an impressive sign of Obama's support. Not even Howard Dean, who was considered the darling of MoveOn in 2004, was able to achieve the supermajority needed for their endorsement.

Endorsements are like compliments; they do not project the giver's views onto the receiver. This will not hurt Obama in the general.

The group, with 3.2 million members nationwide 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%.

How will MoveOn.org endorsement affect the race on Super Tuesday?

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1678

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Obama is not going to go down without a fight. It is interesting to watch the "Old Guard" stand with Bill Clinton and his wife.

In the end - it will Be Obama with the popular support of the Democrat Party grass roots, but it will be Mrs. Bill Clinton with the backing of the Democrat Party machinery......so leave it to the ol' "Bull Connor" mentality of Bill and Mrs. Clinton. They will find a way to keep this "uppity" black man in his place.

#1: this was not a 'quick and dirty' poll. You obviously didn't take the time to find out about it before commenting. (Maybe the same reason you're supporitng Hillary).

Each member could cast only ONE VOTE- through a link in their email that was unique to each person.

These emails could not be forwarded or re-used.

They had another fail-safe built in too. A follow up email was sent with a code in it. They called your number and you had to enter the code for the vote to be valid.

FIND OUT THE FACTS NEXT TIME

Great News! To Susan9 how was this a dirty trick? MoveOn.org emailed their members and asked them to Endorse a Candidate. Members were allowed one vote. I did not see anything wrong with the way this was done. Are you upset because it was done so fast? Maybe you would like for it to have dragged on for weeks?.. I have a feeling that you are not even a member of MoveOn.org.

Hillary for VP !!

So much for Obama appealing to independents. MoveOn's endorsement is the kiss of death. The GOP's ad people are creating a nice montage of Obama, the Move On endorsement, the over-the-top Move-On NYT ad, and voting for the name-no-names version of the repudiation of the ad.

Again, we Dems are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Wandering into the political wilderness. Appropriating ever metaphor that signifies self-inflicted defeat.

Am getting too old to keeping hoping we do better during the next election!

Hold on, hold on, hold on...take a deep breath. Everyone is focusing on a single endorsement instead of looking at the big picture.

Sen. Obama is able to pull people from all areas of the Democratic political spectrum. He's able to bring the most liberal wing of the Democratic Party such as MoveOn.org and "Blue Dog" Democrats (or Conservative Democrats) such Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. That has been his central message all along. Being able to bring everyone to work together toward a common purpose.

MoveOn.org is just announcing their support for the Senator like the SEIU endorsed him this morning or even Paul Volker, former Federal Reserve Chairman, did last night. So chill out and take a deep breath and enjoy watching how many different people with different ideologies and different backgrounds this person is able to bring together...that's just amazing to me.

Why would Obama run from this endorsement? He can use his solid refrain: "I am running to be the President of all Americans."

The broader the coalition, the better.

The folks that scream about MoveOn.org are the same folks that listen to Rush and Hannity and Jay Severin AND BELIEVE WHATEVER THEY SAY. They would not have voted for Obama anyway.

Hillary for Senate!

Calm down, Hillary folks...MoveOn is an anti-war group. Did you really think they would not endorse Obama -- who was at an anti-war rally and gave a speech against the war in 2002?

But since most of the nation now thinks the war was a disaster and a mistake, the endorsement shouldn't hurt with Independents and even some disgusted Republicans. MoveOn may have gone a bit too far in that one ad -- but everyone knows that emotions can run high about an issue like this.

It was a meaningful endorsement and should help on Super Tuesday. And, yes, it is a tribute to Obama's ability to build coalitions across diverse lines of ideologies. People are hungering for ideas that will transcend the squabbles that have dominated politics. Obama is the best chance to do that.

Sorry, but it is true -- I vote in Virginia -- Virginia could vote for a Democratic president for the first time in a long time if Obama is running. Hillary will keep Virginia in the reddish-purple list.

I WILL VOTE FOR HER, but it will not be a large-scale win.

This is bound to send all the moderates to Hillary. This frantic fight between these candidates is gonna hurt the democrats in November. That's all that's clear. And I can't say Obama is very unifying. My god, you'd think his life depended on this nomination.

Sorry who ever said this is a kiss of death is right, first kiss of death was Kerry coming out for Obama. The Kennedys well lets all take a closer look at who said I back Obama, Ted Hmmm how many are old enough to remember his life. Caroline was how old when JFK was killed, she remembers little if anything. Obama has a smooth tongue but nothing to back it up. All he can do is hope Terror is a bumper sticker four hundred dollar haircut Edwards does not come out for him! Hillary all you have to do is say the last name Clinton, no thanks been there done that. So who does an independent vote for? Not a democrat!

I voted in the MoveOn Poll yesterday and the plan was for MoveOn to endorse only if over 66% of their membership supported one candidate. Seems fair to me.
Barack spoke to our small "peace" group on a Sunday afternoon in Chicago, 2002. I realized then he would be president. His core values seem to be at least 89% intact. Integrity, compassion, transparent and honest...and pretty smart too.
I'm very comfortable and confident that my vote for Obama is the right one.
Jim White

Obama's broad appeal makes him a stronger candidate than Clinton in the general election. Let's hope he overcomes the Clinton machine and gives America a nice fresh start.

Poor Obama. He is doing along great when the curse came upon him with this endorsement of moveon.org. I am a democrat but I despised this group which knows nothing but confrontational politics. They are no better than Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter
etc.

"And I can't say Obama is very unifying. "

Someone is off their meds.

Who the heck else would moveon endorse?

If the KKK endorses McCain does that mean McCain is a member of the KKK? Get a grip.

As a MoveOn member myself, I would like to point out one bit of information that was omitted in this article. I, along with a majority of the organization, stated that we would support whoever gets the Democratic nomination. As a Democrat, I think both Hillary and Barack both possess strong leadership qualities. I've gone back and forth a few times, sometimes thinking Hillary would be better, other times Barack. I'd say this is a fantastic predicament to be in: Democrats have two strong candidates vying for President. My hope is we, the Democratic Party, can remember we're all on the same side of the political spectrum and keep infighting to a minimum.

This is definitely NOT good news for Obama. MoveOn has a history of ham-fisted attempts at helping candidates that have backfired spectacularly. With "friends" like MoveOn, Obama isn't going to need any enemies.

If you were on MoveOn's email list, you would know that it was not a fair poll. If you clicked on a link to vote, you had only two options - vote for Obama or vote for Clinton. All MoveOn members who supported someone else or believed MoveOn should not endorse at all were disenfranchised. By my calculations, 82% of MoveOn's membership (using the figures MoveOn provides both as to numbers who voted and for their membership) did not vote for either Obama or Clinton. So you could say there was a landslide against the endorsement, but this didn't stop MoveOn's leadership.

MoveOn always reverts to form. Look up its history. It was started by rich businessmen who felt that both progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans threatened America. It has repeatedly angered progressives by its positions, such as its campaign *for* Iraq War funding only last year. Not surprising that it would only allow a choice between two candidates who have voted to fund the Iraq War, refuse to pledge to withdraw troops from Iraq at any time during their Presidency if elected, favor increasing the bloated military budget, and favor increasing the size of active duty U.S. military forces.

MoveOn is an organization dedicated to defending the establishment through duping progressives and falsely claiming to represent progressives.

obama is dead in the water. he may win the nomination but a large percentage of democrats like me will never vote for the person with the most liberal record in the senate, the endorsement of moveon.org, ted kennedy and john kerry(two liberals from mass who tried to be president but were defeated by the country)

obama is not ready to be president i think that the media has drunk the kool-aid, including the los angeles times. if you read their endorsement, they talk about obama's experience in foreign affairs. what experience. this guy is like hollywood, great facade but nothing behind it.

once again, the democrats will lose the general election in november with obama. he will get very few moderate or conserative democrats.

"...the most liberal record in the senate..."

Smear alert! Made up 'facts' like this invalidate everything else in the post.