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The Future Of Obama Activism

19 Nov 2008 11:59 am

(Note: Buzzin' Ben Smith first called attention to this.)

Barack Obama's political team -- OFA2, as they call it internally -- wants to know what Obama's supports would like to do with the 10,000,000-strong Obama volunteer army. Actually, that's 10 million e-mail addresses; the campaign estimates that two million people volunteered in some way and about one million volunteered to help get out Obama's vote.

They've sent a fairly comprehensive survey to everyone on The List asking everything from whether supporters attend religious services to whether they identify themselves with one of 16 identity groups to whether they'd be interested in helping Obama "pass legislation through grassroots efforts."

In an introductory e-mail, campaign manager David Plouffe writes that Obama and Biden "will need your support more than ever. You've built an organization in your community and across the country that will continue to work for change -- whether it's by building grassroots support for legislation, backing state and local candidates, or sharing organizing techniques to effect change in your neighborhood. Your hard work built this movement. Now it's up to you to decide how we move forward."

Read the five-page survey here.

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