Organizing For Action (OFA) vs Democracy For America (DFA)

[All Along The Watchtower]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_for_America

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizing_for_Action

It's your choose.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Organizing for America activists came through Indian River County in 2008 and stayed at the Disney Resort there, which is managed by my grandma's neighbor. He claims he saw the same members of the group sneaking around Vero Beach at night stealing McCain signs. I don't know much of that is true, but my grandma and I watch him struggle to take his McCain yard sign out of his exhaust pipe-which it had been stuffed up.

So I voted DFA.

[Morning in Atlas]

As an ex-OFA employee, DFA. Howard Dean's causes are noble.

[Indy Texas]

They are political activist groups and I hate political activist groups in general. Organizing for Action is basically the PR arm of the Obama campaign repurposed as part of the DNC. I guess DFA is probably less "astro-turf" as a result, I'd probably go with them.

Overall, Democratic groups have not morphed into the monstrous nonprofit-political-consultant-industrial-complex that their Republican and conservative counterparts have become, but I think a large part of that is due to (i) the departure of many Bush Era people following the end of that presidency; (ii) the financial weakening of the party in the mid-2000s; (iii) the fact that the groups they rely on most for support - large corporations and the wealthy - are the same groups that can most easily create their own non-party fundraising and outreach infrastructure that will be more directly responsive to their goals.