MoveOn Staying Where It Is
MoveOn’s Communications Director emailed me with an important followup point about Politico’s article this morning on MoveOn’s agenda largely aligning with Barack Obama’s:
But one key piece of information missing from Politico’s article that I wanted to flag is this: our members’ top priorities have remained largely unchanged since our last agenda setting process in 2005. The economy has risen in the rankings, due to obvious conditions, but ending the war, universal health care, and creating a green economy/tackling the climate crisis have been primary points of focus for MoveOn for three years running.
Rather than blind followers, as Politico portrays, our members have been determined and persevering in their pursuit of these progressive goals. The only thing that’s changed is now they have an Administration who is friendly to these aims–at least in rhetoric. In practice, we have yet to see how the Administration will perform, but we do know for the most part who our friends and foes in Congress are and can engage accordingly from the outset.
Yes. In part, there’s a lot of agreement simply because people agree about a lot of stuff.
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December 29th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Alas that ending the War on Drugs still doesn’t appear on the radar screen.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
This is reassuring, do we get to keep Howard Dean as well?
December 29th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
There’s also the obvious point that there might be a person in office because of MoveOn.
A strong argument can be made that Obama won by unifying a relatively privileged and young creative class with the AA community. The reason Obama was able to do this is because his priorities lined up very well with both of them. Ending the War in Iraq and addressing climate change have been priorities for MoveOn folks for ages, and if he had a record of supporting the war and diminishing climate change he likely would not have gotten their support. Without it, Obama’s base would have been significantly smaller, both in numbers and particularly in donors.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
There’s also the obvious point that there might be a person in office *whose priorities align with MoveOn’s priorities* because of MoveOn.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Persecuting war criminals? Eh.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
next go round, “ignoring Politico” should be one of the options for the agenda
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