Andrew Golis

The guys from predictify.com asked me to be their “VIP” this week.  Essentially, that means my mug is featured on their homepage with the question I’m posing to the community:

With the help of an email list estimated to have over 5 million addresses, Barack Obama has shattered fundraising records, mounted an unprecedented offline organizing effort, and stayed in almost daily contact with his most fervent supporters. By election day in November, that list could easily double or triple in size.

If he wins, will Obama take the list with him to the White House to activate his base; hand it over to the DNC; or, as did Howard Dean in 2004, spin the group off into an independent grassroots organizing effort?

Micah Sifry’s brilliant essay, “Obama’s Organization, and the Future of American Politics,” was the inspiration.  If for some reason you didn’t read it when I fawned over it in my del.icio.us links, do it now.  It’s simple an essential piece of movement analysis to understand the political moment in which we find ourselves.

I’ll be fascinated to watch their community hash this out.  I did, after all, in a past life design and help build a political prediction site of my own.

What’s your prediction?  What will Obama do with that list?

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