MoveOn Grows Up

The online grassroots liberal political organization MoveOn.org started in 1998 and has grown ever larger during this election cycle. This article was about the power the organization has and how the site can affect change as well as help other blogs. It shows the power individual blogs have and what they can grow to become. MoveOn has over 4.2 million members and turned 10 years old this year. In the 2006 midterm elections they raised and spent $11 million more that th NRA. I think it's amazing the amount of power this organization has and the number of people they can reach. The blogging phenomenon in general is spectacular to me--I love that people can be so easily connected and the fact that people are now using it as a method of political intervention is another step forward. You can even see ads for MoveOn on Facebook, I think it's great that they are so effective with their methods of reaching people and raising money through the internet and emails. Something that Eli Pariser, head of MoveOn said really stuck with me, "back in 2001, people felt alone, like there was nothing you could do to get involved. Not anymore. People are finding each other. People are communicating. People are pumped up."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100803677.html