Ready for Warren Asked Their Members if They Should Back Bernie Sanders. Why Won’t MoveOn and DFA?

[eridani]

http://inthesetimes.com/article/18174/elizabeth-warren-supporters-bernie-sanders-is-your-best-hope

Amid the growing momentum of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, many progressive advocacy groups appear reluctant to find out just how many of their members now support Sanders.

The team behind Ready for Warren recently launched a new initiative, Ready to Fight, endorsing Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. In a recent CNN op-ed, Ready for Warren co-founders Erica Sagrans (who is a board member of In These Times) and Charles Lenchner write that they polled their members and found that “56% of supporters have urged us to back Bernie Sanders as the candidate currently running for president who best embodies the values that Warren champions.”

Other progressive groups had likewise been committed to a Warren candidacy. In a November 2014 member poll, Democracy for America (DFA) members overwhelming picked Elizabeth Warren as the candidate they most wanted to see run, with Bernie Sanders coming in second and Hillary Clinton third.

Warren’s strong performance prompted Democracy for America to join MoveOn’s Run Warren Run campaign. After Warren announced that she would not run, MoveOn and DFA did not shift their support to any other single candidate.

But it’s difficult to know whether the members of DFA and MoveOn have already coalesced around a single candidate. Democracy for America’s last public member poll was in November 2014 and the group has not committed to publicly polling its members’ preferences in the 2016 presidential race.

Likewise, in a public statement, MoveOn’s executive director of political action Ilya Sheyman explains that the group will consider endorsements “if it appears MoveOn members might coalesce around a particular candidate.” MoveOn did not respond to questions about whether the progressive advocacy group plans to conduct a public poll of its members’ candidate preferences.

[delrem]

1. It's still too early.

Really, it is.
The US primaries are ridiculously extended, and further extended by big money so it's unreal.

They're so extended that I find some of the early endorsements - starting before anyone had even announced, or within weeks of the first announcements - just a little bit out of whack.

[Kalidurga]

2. Looks like the members of DFA and MoveOn will have to push their leadership to make the endorsement.

From what I am seeing though endorsements will be moot. He is being endorsed by thousands more ordinary people every single day. He has a huge volunteer network that is growing everyday. He has double the funds he thought he would have by now and there is no sign of these things slowing down.

[emsimon33]

3. I won a dinner with Howard Dean about 18 months ago

In our conversation, I was disappointed how committed he appeared to be to Hillary. I think that may be why DFA has not polled members. Just thinking maybe.

[Enthusiast]

4. I think you are correct.