I was impressed last night in Des Moines, I have to admit it. As the returns came in and I chatted about them with friends like Ari Melber, it became increasingly clear that a watershed moment had just happened.
Obama's victory was fueled not just by the young and young at heart voting for him, but by an incredible group of young workers who spread across Iowa with passion and heart. You could see the excitement in the crowd and when the press folks are standing on tables fighting for a peek of the candidate, you know something is up.
In the flurry of the last couple of days, an amazing new application went up on Facebook, a joint effort of the League of Young Voters and MoveOn and assisted by many other groups.
The application is not just an online primary of Facebook users but has many ways to continue to involve young voters in the political process, researching issues and seeing what their friends think.
How right was MoveOn when it said in an email about the project:
In our press outreach, we'll be stressing that young folks aren't as apathetic as they're made out to be -- and that this year especially, they're engaged.
Last night certainly proved that.
It's incredibly exciting to think that we might be at the cusp of the moment, or actually at the moment, when technology not only involves a new generation of Americans in the political process, some young, some older but also brings people from the virtual world into the real one.