From The Nation:

Today Barack Obama earned the endorsement of MoveOn, one of the largest grassroots membership organizations in the United States, after clobbering Hillary Clinton by 40 percent in Internet balloting. Obama led the final tally 70.4% to 29.6%, clearing the supermajority required for the endorsement. MoveOn, which has never endorsed a presidential candidate before, boasts that it has 1.7 million members in Super Tuesday states. The group has over half a million members in California alone – roughly one out of ten primary voters in Tuesday's largest state.
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Organizers said they would "immediately" begin mobilizing on behalf of Obama, leading turnout programs and phone-banking members of MoveOn in targeted states. The group made seven million "GOTV" calls for Democrats in the mid-term elections, and it has an extensive voter file database.

It's great to see that this vote wasn't close. I'm not a huge Obama partisan, but I do feel he aligns himself with the progressive movement's calls for change and leadership much better than Clinton. He may not pay us back explicitly - and he may get on our nerves when he compliments people like Ronald Reagan - but his ethos is the closest to ours.
At its heart, the progressive movement is people powered and broad based. Obama's campaign is people powered and he seems to want to take the fight to places its never been before, looking for a real victory instead of the 50+1 strategies we've seen for the last couple decades.
Perhaps this marks the beginning of Obama's integration into the larger progressive movement, something he's been notably reluctant to do so far.
As for what this endorsement means on a practical level, Matt Stoller has a couple thoughts:

I just spoke with Ilyse Hogue, communications director for Moveon, and she tells me that the group is going to mobilize volunteers for Obama in key states and use call for change technology.Â* That's the stuff that lets their members do phone-banking with their browsers to targeted individuals, and often what Moveon will do with this is have Moveon members in non-key states call other Moveon members in key states for GOTV.Â* We'll see what they do.

I've said in private that the less I hear Obama talk, the more I like him. His "post-partisan" rhetoric does get on my nerves. But I'm not vain. I don't need candidates to pander to me directly. If Obama is going about his campaign in the right way, which I believe he is for the reasons mentioned above, then I'll support him too.
Congratulations Barack Obama. Let's see if we can make this partnership work.
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