Those of us behind the Blue Majority ActBlue page would like to gauge reader sentiment on the timing of a presidential endorsement. If two-thirds of the community concurs, we will endorse Barack Obama tomorrow. If not, we will wait until the nominee is certain. Please take the poll below. Thanks!
UPDATE: The results are in. We wait.
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Can the endorsement be applied only to the primary election? In other words, how much face will be lost if we endorse someone who ends up losing, in case that happens?
(For the record: Personally, I support Obama anyway.)
If we endorse now, then it will definitely help Obama get the nomination.
Since it’s statistically improbable for Clinton to be able to take the lead among pledged delegates…
Simply because I don’t think the Blue Majority page should be used for Presidential endorsements.
And so I naturally want Blue Majority to endorse Obama. Is this two-thirds of each group or two-thirds of every member (ie Daily Kos, Open Left and Swing State Project)?
I just voted for wait until it is certain. Wrong button. Can you switch my vote.
And just wondering. Blue Majority is a page for DailyKos, MyDD and OpenLeft too. Would it not be appropriate to poll their members too?
…put me in for a no vote.
If this information is correct that this is the SSP’s own page, then do NOT distract from the downballot focus of the site by giving a presidential endorsement.
While I’d love to see Obama win the nomination, I’d rather the SSP focus on downballot races.
If this isn’t the SSP’s private ActBlue page, then I’d like to know who else’s it is, and what their opinions are on this matter.
I can’t really vote in this poll since neither option fits my position, but for what it’s worth, if my what I’ve said above is correct, then put me down as a vote opposing.
The best thing on this site is that the tit-for-tat of Presidential name calling seldom intrudes. I voted for no endorsement.
I just don’t see the point of an endorsement at this moment. At LEAST wait until After TX/OH.
To be honest, I’m sick of the back and forth between two more or less progressive Democrats.
Right now, the trash cans at my little post office here in Ohio are literally overflowing with discarded, oversize, full color, VERY EXPENSIVE prezzie mailers. People reach a “saturation point” if you will. After the OH-05 special election CIRCUS, the great “silent majority” is burned out with bitter divisional politics and we are STILL months away from the election that counts.
That represents a TON of $$$$$ that is NOT being used to build our brand, not being used to build local infrastructure and most of all NOT BEING USED TO DEFEAT GOPers.
In the meantime, all of the air is being sucked out of the room for our Congressional races, where we have the chance to do an historical three seat “gerrymander buster” flip.
I am so ready for this fight to be over. We are generations overdue to elect either a woman or a person of color to the White House. Either HRC or Obama are about a trillion times better than “100 years in Iraq is OK by me” McCain.
Just remember one thing: is impossible for a Republican to get to the White House without winning Ohio (as long as we have the Electoral College.)
Reliable polls continue to show HRC with a narrow lead over Barack here. But remember, it’s NOT winner take all. I expect HRC to take 10 or 12 districts to Obama’s six to eight(ish).
The point? Nobody is going to get the “knockout punch” win next week. And I don’t want to see our goodwill with the public SQUANDERED on this pie fight.
Would I prefer to see Obama elected? Certainly. Would I rather have Hillary over that doddering sick old coot? Darn straight.
Obama will do great in our urban areas, but HRC will do well there also. Meanwhile out here in the boonies, HRC continues to hold the edge with more strength among women, particularly independents.
Frankly, we need to win both groups or the GOPers win again.
And THAT would be a freakin’ disaster.
Endorsements can be done, when the candidates are cleary defined.
In this case, of Clinton & Obama…the differences are defined and endorsement is not a close call, for the group’s own positions on issues.
The most important thing, in any endorsement is how the candidate can win against the evil doers of secrecy on the right.
This is the type of thing that the online community is meant to do. It is our job to ensure that not just democrats but the right democrats are being elected, otherwise we compromise our values by supporting any candidate (so long as they are a democrat). It is this type of mobilization that got Donna Edwards in office.
is to raise money for the congressional candidates on ActBlue.
If you all running Blue Majority think that endorsing Obama will help with that, then I say go ahead and do it. I don’t know whether it would help or not, but I don’t have three years’ experience running that page either.
The other thing is, Q1 doesn’t end until March 31st. You could endorse on March 5th and still raise plenty of money in Q1, unless you’re thinking that Obama’s small-donor fundraising is gonna dry up when Clinton drops out on the 5th.
Or, if she does well there will be a huge surge of small-donor support for Obama, and if you haven’t got the page put together yet, then you’d miss out on that cash.
Anyway, if this is about capturing money from Obama and redirecting it to congressional candidates, then I totally support that completely (even though I’ve donated to Obama), and you should do it.
Stick with smaller congressional/Senate races. I think it’s a better focus for the funds.
1.) It is statistically VERY unlikely for Clinton to prevail, and Obama has closed massive 20 point deficits to become the front runner, is leading in national polling, won 11 in a row, and is still climbing.
2.) Hillary is at or near her ceiling, and is resorting to the only thing she can do to even out the race – bringing Obama down through unrelenting negative campaigning. If she can’t win on the merits of her policies, then her continual negativity will fracture and hurt the Democratic Party.
3.) Obama will run a 50 state strategy that will significantly help down ballot candidates, and his message of hope is a better counter to McCain than Hillary’s message of experience, where she loses. Hillary is already seriously losing to McCain in GE polling and she will additionally bring out the Republican base to vote against her and subsequently our down-ballot candidates. She will very seriously hurt every other Democrat running across the board.
4.) Hillary’s campaign has been so mismanaged, financially reckless, unable to connect. and strategically blunderous with a 4 state strategy that it is doubtful they will be able to take on an aggressive Republican attack machine, let alone function. Aside from what it says about her leadership ability, combined with Republican 527’s a Republican base fired up and ready to vote against her, and starting with losing numbers almost across the board in a GE, Hillary’s campaign is almost the opposite of Obama’s well run, financially solvent, on message campaign that has closed massively on Hillary and is polling well ahead of McCain.
A Presidential endorsement will distract from the down-ticket races.
And what’s the point anyway? Obama is flailing and needs a lifeline? Or the bandwagon has pulled out of the station and the Blue Majority is running behind to jump on board? Or we need to stir up more candidate diaries and bitterness on the losing side? Forgetaboutit.
I am so sick and tired of the bias media and the celestial Rocky horror traveling road show of the o-bots trying to end this election while 47% of the delegates are still up for grabs and all polls show that the end numbers would be with Hillary Clinton. Take state by state and do the math!
even by brining it up, it’s started the whole anti-obama anti-hillary dynamic, and that is something this site DOES NOT NEED!!!!
For DailyKos, Swing State Project and OpenLeft. They will endorse the Democratic nominee no matter what. The question is do it now or do it when it is confirmed.
A strong presidential candidate creates a wave to lift the whole party. It’s not only proper but important to make an appropriate endorsement. Hillary’s chances are now distant and totally reliant on her going negative. That negativity can leave not only Obama injured, but injure the chances of the party as a whole.
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