Politics: One Happy Couple’s Online Offspring
Whether you think MoveOn.org is a force for good or ill in American politics, it has certainly proved the grassroots power of Internet campaigns. Having endorsed Barack Obama, MoveOn recently launched an “Obama in 30 Seconds” contest, soliciting homegrown ad spots for their endorsee and promising a national television broadcast to the winner. The group has received over 1000 entires, and online voters already number 2.9 million and counting. Impressive for an organization that started with a husband and wife circulating an online petition for congress to censure President Bill Clinton during his impeachment unpleasantries, so the country could just “move on”. Wes Boyd, the husband, told Big Think the whole thing really started by accident.
Big Think also spoke with Mr. Boyd’s better half and Co-Founder of MoveOn, Joan Blades. She described MoveOn’s genesis and her ambitious hopes for it, and an offshoot organization called MomsRising.org.
