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techpresident.com - 1/30/2009
Organizing for America Will, and Should, Fail
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Organizing for America sent out a request for house parties today, asking people to watch a video about Obama's economic recovery plan, talk about it with their friends, and build support for it. While there will be tweaks, this is the kind of action we can anticipate from OFA. I predict that ...
huffingtonpost.com - 1/30/2009
Organizing For America Takes First Action For Obama Agenda
— huffingtonpost.com — Organizing for America, the campaign apparatus left over from Barack Obama's presidential run, is sending out its... first call to action on Friday in support of the president's agenda, officials tell the Huffington Post. The organization, which is ... (more) Organizing For America Takes First Action For Obama Agenda

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t4america.org - 1/26/2009
The United States of Transit Cutbacks : Transportation For America
— t4america.org — Emergency operating assistance in the recovery package will create and save jobs immediately with relatively limited investment.... According to the Amalgamated Transit Union, every $1 billion invested in public transit operations generates 60,000 jobs. ... (more) The United States of Transit Cutbacks : Transportation ...

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narcosphere.narconews.com - 2/4/2009
New Info about Organizing for America and its Plans
— narcosphere.narconews.com — By Al Giordano Today marks 15 of the 1,461 days in President Obama's term (at least the... first one) and it's kinda funny how The Children's Table, which purports to be on the political left, whines in harmony with its counterparts ... (more) New Info about Organizing for America and its Plans

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Remainders: OFA
Ben Smith's Blog — Noam says Geithner is holding his own against Summers. Claire McCaskill is mad, and not coordinating with Obama. Zephyr Teachout predicts Organizing for America is going to fail, and welcomes it. Slate digs up Cheney's daughter's college thesis, and reads a whole lot into it. An Irishman claims Obama as kin and sings about it. More knockoffs of "Yes We Can" appear. Jewcy analyzes Avigdor Lieberman's rise from the vantage point of liberal American Jews. And Warner enters Congress as its wealthiest freshman member.

Peter Daou: President Obama Versus the CW Machine, Round One
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... In reality, events have unfolded very differently. That's not surprising; the role of the web has been misstated in the campaign and it is being overestimated in the post-campaign period. On TechPrez, Zephyr Teachout makes an important point regarding the latter: ...

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Daily Digest: Obama Organizes While Republicans Regroup — techPresident
Can Obama Organize the Stimulus? Should He?: You'll remember that we've been exploring just how the Organizing for American outfit that evolved out of the Obama campaign is actually going to engage with the nuts-and-bolts of passing the President's legislative agenda . Well, now, a clue ...