PRESS RELEASE from MoveOn.org Political Action

 

For Immediate Release:                                                    Contact: Trevor FitzGibbon, Doug Gordon

Wednesday, November 5, 2008           

 

 

After endorsing President-elect Obama in February, MoveOn.org Political Action’s 4.5 million members contributed more than $88 million towards Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, the organization announced today. And more than 1 million MoveOn members worked in a trail-blazing field effort in coordination with the Obama campaign.

 

In the 2008 presidential campaign, MoveOn and its members:

 

• Contributed more than $58 million directly to Obama’s campaign
• Raised and spent more than $30 million in independent election efforts
• Delivered up to 600,000 battleground state volunteers. 400,000 more volunteers participated from non-battleground states
• Added 1 million young members from June to September 2008, and mobilized them online and offline
• Registered more than 500,000 new young Obama supporters in battleground states

 

Eli Pariser, Executive Director of MoveOn, issued the following statement on Obama’s victory:

 

“Our members sense the opportunity to achieve things that seemed improbable if not impossible only a year ago. For our members, this is the culmination of a decade of work to build a progressive, people-driven politics in America.

 

“President Obama will face daunting challenges from the day he takes office. We look forward, however, 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. We look forward to the change all of us worked so hard to create.” 

 

MoveOn.org Political Action is a political action committee powered by 4.5 million progressive Americans. We believe in the power of small donors and grassroots action to elect progressive leaders to office and to advance a progressive agenda. We do not accept any donations over $5,000, and the average donation to MoveOn.org Political Action is under $100.

 

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