WASHINGTON–With the House passing health care on Sunday, Organizing for America, the Obama presidential campaign network folded into the Democratic National Committee, released some numbers on their grass-and-netroot efforts to help get the bill passed.<\/p>\n
Below, from OFA….<\/em><\/p>\n \nHere are the basic numbers on OFA’s efforts in health reform. Keep in mind what these metrics don’t say is how strategic we were about our approach. We made a point of learning everything we could about each Representative and made a plan for supporting or influencing their vote (working very often with their office or with Leadership) before we ever made a push for calls or letters or held a single event. The numbers are great – we made nearly 500,000 calls in the last ten days as part of our Final March for Reform, calls we know turned Representatives like Baird around – but the other point is that OFA volunteers and staff really reached out personally to the Representatives’ offices. We were there to counter the opposition and demonstrate support (even at a moment’s notice), answer questions, build relationships.<\/p>\n Statistics from Final March to Reform: Since the June 6 launch of the health care campaign, OFA has: WASHINGTON–With the House passing health care on Sunday, Organizing for America, the Obama presidential campaign network folded into the Democratic National Committee, released some numbers on their grass-and-netroot efforts to help get the bill passed. Below, from OFA…. Here are the basic numbers on OFA’s efforts in health reform. Keep in mind what these metrics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00b7 Made nearly 500,000 real-people calls to Congress.
\n\u00b7 Sent 324,000 letters to Congress.
\n\u00b7 Held nearly 1,200 health care-related events with more than 10,000 attendees.
\n\u00b7 Sent nearly 1 million localized text messages.
\n\u00b7 Called nearly 120,000 supporters using OFA’s Neighbor-to-Neighbor tool online.
\nTOTAL ACTIONS IN PAST 10 DAYS = Nearly 1.2 million<\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 Held more than 30,000 health care related events in every Congressional District, in all 50 states.
\n\u00b7 Organized more than 65,000 congressional office visits for health insurance reform during one week.
\n\u00b7 Generated more than 315,000 calls to Congress in support of reform in a single day and more than 1.5 million calls overall.
\n\u00b7 238,000 people have shared their personal health care stories.
\n\u00b7 2.7 million people have taken action with Organizing for America on the campaign to enact health insurance reform.
\n\u00b7 9.3 million volunteer hours have been pledged for legislators who fight for health reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"