Small as in number of staff. I'm sure they're funding goes to companies that do focus groups, call centers, mail houses, etc., but the staff is small and the voter campaign is massive. And while I don't know the size of their budget, with $200K in focus groups and $770K in calls, I doubt the org has a total budget of much more than $1 million, which is small.

Posted at April 30, 2008 6:04 PM in response to Group Missed Oregon Primary Deadline, Too

no, I was implying that they are a small nonprofit, with small being the important word. I think it's very believable that a small org working on such a massive mailing/voter reg campaign could mess up.

Posted at April 30, 2008 5:38 PM in response to Group Missed Oregon Primary Deadline, Too

Don't you think they probably use a generic call center that does the recording and the mass-calling? I doubt they hand selected the voice behind the message.

And to the comment from PJ above, this is a small nonprofit org.

Posted at April 30, 2008 5:29 PM in response to Group Missed Oregon Primary Deadline, Too

I think you're right about the way it appears and I think questioning the mess up is fine. But most of the comments here have pretty much tried and sentenced WVWV without a whole lot of information. I am familiar with the organization and don't think that any of this was intentional.

Posted at April 30, 2008 5:17 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls

Wisconsin has same day voter reg and my understanding is that WVWV provides pre-stamped registration cards that go directly to the voter reg office in that state. They don't send them back to WVWV first.

Posted at April 30, 2008 5:07 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls

people still need to be registered for the general election

Posted at April 30, 2008 4:42 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls

honestly people, this is a good non-profit organization that's done a lot to get single women voting. the smearing happening here is largely unfair. if you read josh marshall's most recent post, he even says that more digging has shown that most of their work looks legit. i'm sure we'll get the full story soon. not everything happens in blogosphere time.

Posted at April 30, 2008 4:28 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls

No, NCFM didn't conduct the studies, but given the org's position, I would hardly take one if it's member's interpretations/reading of the studies seriously. And, you don't have to agree with those posts on Pandagon/Feministe/Feministing. But no one here was using the comments of those bloggers to prove that the Duke students were innocent or guilty, or to prove that TPMCafe is biased in who it lets post here.

Posted at April 16, 2007 7:29 PM in response to Duke Case Shows Racism in Our Justice System

I'm sorry, but I refuse to take those stats seriously when they come from a member of this org http://www.ncfm.org/about-ncfm.php, which has the following to say about feminism:

"The female institution that subordinates the needs and nature of men to those of women, while promoting special entitlements, privileges, and protections for women, is feminism (although feminists would deny that that is what feminism is about).

and about chivalry:

"But men have their own institution: chivalry is the male institution that subordinates the needs and nature of men to those of women, while promoting special entitlements, privileges, and protections for women."

Good gravy:(

Posted at April 16, 2007 6:51 PM in response to Duke Case Shows Racism in Our Justice System

Yes, money is key to buying a good defense.

But, race and class are linked. While in sheer numbers there are more poor white people than poor Black people, the proportion of the Black pop that is poor is much greater. Likewise, if you look at the prison population, both the disproportionate number and proportion of Black people incarcerated tells you that the justice system isn't just ensnaring the poor.

Posted at April 16, 2007 6:34 PM in response to Duke Case Shows Racism in Our Justice System