Hooray for Moveon.org

[ciphergoth]

This witty campaign ad tickled me:

In an almost misstep-free campaign, Obama's biggest misstep was encouraging the 527s like Moveon.org to shut down. Once the fire started coming in from the Republican 527s, he reversed his position, but it took them a while to get back into play.

How come they're allowed to use words like "vote", "elect" and such, btw? I thought there was a list of key words that 527s weren't allowed to use? Or have I been watching too much West Wing?

Comments

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Well the top link on that page says that move.on.org *isn't* a 527. Not that I am any the wiser...

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Ah, that would explain the partisan language :-) I knew that they had shut down their 527 at Obama's urging, and seeing this ad I thought they'd started it up again, but no, it's a PAC, and they're allowed to explicitly urge you to vote one way or the other.