Organizers and the DFA Link Community: How they voted

by Ilya Sheyman [courtesy of Blog for America]

One of DFA's greatest strengths has always been the active community of 760 groups meeting monthly all across the country. We've had a lot of anecdotal evidence of where local groups were leaning - for example DC for Democracy recently endorsed Senator Obama and is actively volunteering in support of his campaign - but now we finally have hard numbers to see the pulse of our community.

We started by taking a look at group organizers across the country - of whom over 60% voted in this poll. These results are for all the declared Presidential candidates with write-in Gores votes distributed to their second choice. (Only a handful had to be removed for refusing to state a different second choice). The results are strikingly different from the overall poll.

Sen. Edwards holds a clear lead amongst organizers with 41.88% of the vote, followed by Sen. Obama at 20.16% and Rep. Kucinich rounds out the top three at 17.03. Much like the rest of the community, there's no clear concensus among DFA organizers about a candidate - although the conventional wisdom is clearly not in play and the race is far from being over.

Below the fold, we take a look at DFA-Link members as a whole.