NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri PAC was formed in 1988 to help elect pro-choice candidates to office.  It seeks to protect pro-choice incumbents from challengers and to elect pro-choice officials.  During the 2008 election cycle, NPCM PAC made approximately 10 times more direct cash contributions to endorsed candidates than any other pro-choice organization in Missouri reported, in addition to substantial independent expenditures and influencing our members to support PAC-endorsed candidates financially.  NPCM PAC-endorsed candidates won 80% of the time in 2008, and in those races in which we spent money in a contested primary, our success rate was 66%.  During the 2008 elections, our PAC communicated with 50,000 pro-choice voters statewide through mail, email, phonebanks, and canvasses; sent over 35,000 pieces of direct mail in independent expenditure campaigns in targeted races; sent personnel to physically staff five campaign offices; trained candidates in framing a winning pro-choice message; conducted a GOTV operation including “knock and drags” on election day, poll-watching, and election-day phoning.  We were widely credited with providing the slim margin of victory in a ferociously contested state Senate race when our endorsement triggered a flood of other endorsements, with the money and volunteers that accompany them, for the winning candidate.  Our Voters Guide is provided to all members in major election years, first for the primaries, and then for the general election.