easttexasonline.com » obama for america http://easttexasonline.com/blogs Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:07:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Obama Launches Major Tool To Reset Health Care Debate http://easttexasonline.com/blogs/2009/06/23/obama-launches-major-tool-to-reset-health-care-debate/ http://easttexasonline.com/blogs/2009/06/23/obama-launches-major-tool-to-reset-health-care-debate/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:04:54 +0000 http://easttexasonline.com/blogs/?p=361 Barack Obama’s campaign arm, Organizing for America, released on Tuesday a major new online tool designed to personalize the debate over health care reform and galvanize grassroots support for the president’s plan.

The organization, started during the 2008 election, launched a new web page that officials are describing as a “health-care story bank.” The site, officially titled “Health Care Stories for America,” allows OFA’s 13-million member list — as well as countless others — to share and find tales of individual health care struggles. Visitors can search for the stories by geography (using an online map), amplify the ones they find compelling through a voting mechanism, and describe experiences of their own. The goal, according to the site, is to illuminate a “common thread in crisis that affects us all.”

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