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Organizing for America is still underperforming. Shocker, I know.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 15th, 2013 at 08:30 PM  | 

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Background: Organizing for Action is just as bad at pushing actual policy positions during Obama’s second term as its previous incarnation was as bad at pushing actually policy positions during Obama’s first term. I know that this will disappoint everybody who was expecting OfA a +5 Vorpal Juggernaut, but this was not exactly an unexpected outcome. Well, unexpected by some: there’s possibly an emotional aspect to some analyses these days*. OfA also seems to be not bringing in the cash – the phrase ‘potholes in the road’ was used, which is code for We seriously overestimated how much more money we could squeeze out of our usual donor base. But don’t worry: there’s still hope!

Even donors who acknowledged the group was off to a slow start predicted that just as the campaign heated up, so will OFA.

“When the president really starts to push these issues like immigration, that’s when you’re going to see this operation going at full speed,” said one top Obama donor. “This is why people elected the president. It wasn’t necessarily about him but what he could do.”

…”When?” At this point, the word should be “if.” For that matter, if there is a grand bargain of some kind on immigration reform then OfA is going to be completely incidental to the situation. There isn’t a Republican in the House who really cares too much about what Organizing for Action thinks about him or her, and all the poorly-coordinated, funded, and delivered protest actions in the world isn’t about to change that. What will change that? …The Democrats taking back the House. Which OfA singularly and epically failed to do in 2012.

On the bright side, probably OfA will declare victory anyway and the media will let them. Which is annoying to us, but more than made up for in midterm elections when a bunch of people who have told themselves fairy stories for two years discover objective reality**.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

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*Not that I ever do that. No. Not me! Never.

**Yes, I suppose that you could say that about Republicans in ’06, ’08, & ’12. …Oh, I’m sorry: did that easy admission spoil some people’s Special Time? So sad.

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  • walter_hanson

    Lets remember what drove Obama’s victory in 2012 was Obama’s image. Sure they believe that the people voted for Obama because of the issues. But on individual issues they can’t generate that excitement.
    Example: a black person who vote solely for Obama because he was black won’t mobilize to help out on immigration.
    Not to mention what happens when they have to ride the fence on two issues. How do you excite the environmentalist who doesn’t think they care about stopping the Xcel pipeline or the worker who thinks they don’t care about getting the Xcel pipeline approved because the election is over.
    Walter Hanson
    Minneapolis, MN

  • walter_hanson

    Mid:
    If we have the Senate we remove Harry Reid and the Democrats blocking and killing everything the House does. Obama will have to veto bill after bill. And just think in 2016 when the Presidential election takes place all of these commonsense bills which Obama will be vetoing will be issues. Not even Hillary can hide from that.
    Walter Hanson
    Minneapolis, MN

  • joshinca

    Obama is a con man and OfA is just a vehicle to transfer money into his own pockets.

  • grumpyKoz

    With Boehner and McConnell lining up behind Ms. Pelosi, I would imagine that a Grand Bargain (probably more like a Proclamation) will be mounted quite soon. I guess Obama has promised Boehner and McConnell choice positions in his Marxist Cabinet once he completes the destruction and eventual take over of the United States.