Election's Over--Time to Begin

MATT HOUSTON/AP
Vincent DeMarco, 2006

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.   --David Plouffe, Obama campaign manager

What do the Obama campaign organizers do now?

In the election's wake, left without a common cause are at least 20,000 seasoned and tested organizers. Newsweek's Howard Fineman reports that by election day, these organizers had mobilized 5 million volunteers. To them must be added the hundreds of thousands of organizers and volunteers who performed parallel service for MoveOn, ACORN and other independent election campaign organizing efforts.

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