“They didn’t keep the organization alive. They thought it was out there to use whenever they wanted to use it. But with constituents who feel like they’ve been part of a revolution — as ours did in ’80 and ’81 — you’ve got to feed them. You’ve got to make sure that they feel important.” Instead, says [former Reagan strategist Ed] Rollins, OFA “e-mailed them to death, but without any real steps to make them feel a part of the process, like they felt a part of the campaign.”

Rolling Stone has a great article, “No We Can’t,” on how Organizing for America, Obama’s key web/volunteer organization during theelection, was co-opted into the Democratic National Committee post-election, ultimately becoming toothless.

Edit: Charles Homan of Washington Monthly has an interesting article on the same subject, “The Party of Obama.”