{"id":28230,"date":"2012-05-31T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28230"},"modified":"2012-05-31T05:50:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T10:50:27","slug":"maybe-they-need-to-no-thats-too-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28230","title":{"rendered":"Maybe They Need To&#8230;No, That&#8217;s Too Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MoveOn.org &#8211; an early adopter in the &#8220;mobilize low-information voters behind vague but simple chanting points&#8221; market &#8211; is <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/washington-secrets\/2012\/05\/moveon-warns-\u2018we-might-have-pull-plug\u2019\/670461\">claiming it&#8217;s going to need to triage its races<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MoveOn, a giant in the progressive political world and an early endorser of Barack Obama in 2008, warns that it might have to \u201cpull the plug\u201d on key campaigns to help Obama and Senate Democrats if its 7 million members don\u2019t pony up with at least $5.<\/p>\n<p>Without a rush of new cash, MoveOn says it will have to give up efforts to elect Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, help the recall fight against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and energize younger voters who\u2019ve soured on Washington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the one hand, I suspect MoveOn is trying to scare its base into action. \u00a0There is no way they&#8217;re short of money; someone, George Soros or Paul Allen or Warren Buffett, will pony up.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Democrat enthusiasm can&#8217;t be especially high; even &#8220;progressives&#8221; aren&#8217;t better off than they were four years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The homepage of MoveOn, which helped organize the 2004 anti-war movement, includes a \u201cchip in\u201d button preset at $8.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hearing that MoveOn might be short of money is like hearing the mullahs have a computer virus problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoveOn.org &#8211; an early adopter in the &#8220;mobilize low-information voters behind vague but simple chanting points&#8221; market &#8211; is claiming it&#8217;s going to need to triage its races: MoveOn, a giant in the progressive political world and an early endorser of Barack Obama in 2008, warns that it might have to \u201cpull the plug\u201d on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28231,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230\/revisions\/28231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}