How Big Is PUMA Now?

[Flabbergasted]

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/08/how_big_is_puma_now.php

How Big Is PUMA Now?
07 Aug 2008 05:01 pm

One delegate's view:

I'm a DNC pledged delegate for Obama. Your recent PUMA PAC musings piqued my interest, if only because I do sort of have a metric on how big the PUMA people are as a movement. About a month ago I woke up and took a look at my e-mail and instead of seeing few new e-mails in the morning I saw more than three hundred.


PUMA released the e-mail addresses of the delegates to their supporters and asked them to e-mail us with a form letter. I'm sure you've seen the letter (if not, it's pasted in below), but since I set up a filter to direct every e-mail with "PUMA" in it to a folder on my Outlook, I can tell you that about a month after their letter-writing campaign began (I don't get many more these days), I received a total of 404 messages.


Given that their entire raison d'etre is getting delegates to vote otherwise, this makes me think the PUMA movement is actually quite small, even if it is quite good at getting press. PUMA will surely stage something at the convention, but if they can only get 404 people to send e-mails, I'm not sure how many they can get to fly to Denver and make an impressive scene.


Anecdotally, I would add that my interactions with the many Clinton delegates over Facebook and in person has been uniformly positive.

[Tektonik]

1. hugh

[cliffordu]

6. rofl!!

[The Magistrate]

2. That Seems A Pretty Good Measure, Sir

Perhaps several thousand at the outside.

Thank you for posting this.

[Bob Dobbs]

3. PUMA

Power elite's
Underground
McCain
Army (of few)

They are reich wing operatives and their willing stooges.

[derby378]

4. More along the lines of Party Unity, My Ass

:evilgrin:

[Flabbergasted]

5. .