DNC goes nuclear on Time, Cook for OfA critique - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

DNC goes nuclear on Time, Cook for OfA critique - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com: "Time.com today carried a brief item suggesting that Organizing for America hasn't lived up to its early promise, a theme that has been much written — and always angrily rejected by the DNC and OfA — since soon after the group's creation.

Wrote Jay Newton-Small:

What happened to Barack Obama's once vaunted political machine? The outfit that put upwards of 8 million volunteers on the street in 2008 — known as Organizing for America — is a ghost of its former self. Its staff has shrunk from 6,000 to 300, and its donors are depressed: Receipts are a fraction of what they were in 2008. Virtually no one in politics believes it will turn many contests this fall. 'There's no chance that OFA is going to have the slightest impact on the midterms,' says Charlie Cook, who tracks congressional races.

The item prompted an unsolicited — and substantially longer — e-mail to me from DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse, who defended the group at length:"

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