Debate Watch Party Berkeley, California.

"We packed the Room. It was the biggest meetup we ever had."

"I'm hoping that after the election... people will start to recognize that this is how our constitutional democracy is supposed to work --- people coming together in small groups..."

While Obama was inside the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco raising millions of dollars from deep-pocketed Democrats, OffTheBus community member and reporter Edwin Rutsch was outside taking in the wind-blown fired-up crowd.

"We're out here to make sure California casts more votes for Barack Obama than...

A couple of weeks ago, OTB community member Edwin Rutsch interviewed Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr at Netroots Nation in Austin. Barr is a busy candidate, if not the most frenetic campaigner. As he pointed out yesterday at his blog, there are only three months until the election and,...