OFA's New "Thanks for Nothing" Drive Targets GOP Reps in Obama-Voting Districts

It's some pretty basic data crunching, but it's a start. This week, Organizing for America is matching up (a) the names of those Republican members of Congress who voted against the House's health care packaged with (b) the congressional districts that voted for President Barack Obama in '08 and (c) the names of folks on their multi-million member email list who happen to live in the resulting 32 districts, which stretch from Rep. Frank A. LoBiondo's south Jersey district to Rep. Mary Bono Mack's southern California one. Those OFAers are being asked to point out to their elected Republican representatives that their "no" votes on health care are out of step with how their constituents voted in the last presidential election. Members of Congress who vote in favor of the legislative package, on the other hand, are being targeted by an Organizing for America "Thank You" drive.

(Of course, the 32 districts at the focus of OFA's new accountability push also happened to vote into office those ornery nay-voting Republican members of Congress at the very same moment last election day that they pulled the lever for Obama. But that, for obvious reasons, didn't make it into the OFA email.)

"This is not about confrontation," reads the email. "It’s simply about expressing your opinion and being heard." The New York Times Kit Seelye, the Nation's Ari Melber, and the Hill's Keith Koffler have the story. The names of the 32 Republicans in OFA's sights are listed after the jump...