The President's Field Team By the Numbers - What OFA Has Done on Healthcare

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The President's Field Team By the Numbers - What OFA Has Done on Healthcare

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The President's Field Team By the Numbers - What OFA Has Done on Healthcare

by Femlaw

Over the summer, as folks were writing withering online obituaries for OFA, I recommended they give the President's Field Team time to prove itself.

Organizing for America is something no one has ever tried. Which makes it hard to pull off. And it is based on a local organizing model. Which makes it hard to see how it is working. But here's what I learned the last time - don't judge an Obama-led organizing effort by its early reviews.

Yesterday, TPMDC published an interview with Mitch Stewart and Jeremy Bird of Organizing for America about what OFA has accomplished on healthcare.

Half a million phone calls starting October 20, including over 300,000 on that single day. In a single week in August, 65,000 people visited their Representatives to advocate for health care reform. Nearly a quarter of a million Letters to the Editor submitted.

OFA has become something its early critics never expected. A success.

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Thu Nov-12-09 02:31 PM
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1. Right on.

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2. kr for now..gotta

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