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...story wasn't about Moveon.org, as he makes it seem. It was about Texas redistricting and included a single passing mention of the group. If you look at all the 14 Washington Post mentions of the organization from July to September-the months surrounding the citation Fleischer chooses-Moveon was referred to as "liberal" or "left-leaning" or as "an organ of the left," 10 times. The instances in which it goes un-labeled are either unnecessary because the political leaning is clear, or incidental. That's almost the exact treatment The Post gives Americans for Tax reform, a conservative...
...MoveOn, for its part, hasn’t yet endorsed a candidate. But in a press release last Friday it called on the Democratic Party to choose a new chair who would “reconnect the party with the grassroots.” MoveOn and the Dean campaign showed that when you start getting enough individuals engaged, and start adding enough small contributions together, you can wind up with something pretty big. But political money comes in all shapes and sizes, and now some bigger donors are also beginning to throw their weight around. Matt Bai had a widely...
...first glance, the big donors affiliated with Rosenberg and the Democracy Alliance might seem to be in tension with the small donor grassroots model touted by MoveOn and Dean. But this is not the case. Rosenberg’s donors may have deep pockets, but they’re hardly party insiders; their giving is motivated by the same sort of personal convictions that fuel MoveOn’s members...
...it’s looking as though that prediction might be a little hasty. Rosenberg isn’t trying to retire the Democratic Party and consign it to institutional obsolescence; he’s campaigning to lead the thing. The same goes for MoveOn. They’re not out to supplant the Dems, just to get them to adopt a more grassroots orientation...
...capacity of independent nonparty organizations like MoveOn, Americans Coming Together and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now to raise money and mobilize anti-Bush voters has acted like a fresh rain on the Democratic Party's parched grass roots. Even though the Democratic candidate lost, the party and the broader network of liberal, anti-Bush organizations succeeded in raising record sums of money and enlisting unprecedented numbers of volunteers. Far from being distraught and depressed by the election, the way they were after 2000, many Democrats sound surprisingly upbeat about the future...