MoveOn Members Are Voting on a Presidential Endorsement That Matters

Before media and political elites began to understood the potential for online activism, MoveOn was doing it. The group, which was forged in the1998 fight to get Congress to “move on” from petty-yet-divisive wrangling over the impeachment of Bill Clinton, and which expanded into a political force of national and international significance during the struggle to avert the war in Iraq, MoveOn has for almost two decades set benchmarks for digital activism. Today, the group describes itself as “a community of more than 8 million Americans from all walks of life who use the connective power of the Internet to lead, participate in, and win campaigns for progressive change.”Yet only once has MoveOn made an endorsement in a contest for a Democratic presidential nomination. In February 2008, when that...READ MORE