I'm just poking around there for the first time, looking for friends. Anyone who hangs out here also hang out there?  Any tips?  I'm partially curious because I'm looking to promote TPM content, but also for my own uses...

One of the big questions right now is what will happen to the Obama Movement now that its leadership is shifting from insurgent campaign to governance. Will they try to keep it alive from the WH, from the DNC? Allow it to spin off as an independent organization a la Democracy for America?

That's the question Micah Sifry asked of organizing guru (and my organizing trainer and mentor on the Dean campaign and at the DNC) Marshall Ganz. Many of the field leaders in Obama's organization are Ganz proteges, and they brought him in to lead the Camp Obama trainings attended by 23,000 organizers.

So, while no one knows what will happen yet, Marshall is worth listening to on this front:

We're going to be pushing a fancy Google Map live later today that will stream results back once the poll close on election day.

We're doing all the testing we can (and Google built it and they're pretty good at this), but I was hoping I could convince a few dozen of you to help me out by clicking over to our test site (repeat: test site, the news there is fake/old) and having a look.

Could you do me that favor?  A picture of what it's supposed to look like and some questions after the break.

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Funny stuff.

Obama after the break...

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I love this from M.J.:

Winning is out of the question for McCain now. He lost all three debates and,in the course of a few months, became something of a joke to most Americans. Pretty amazing for the American hero.

No matter what happens now, he goes down as one of those marginal figures in our political history who was discredited, lost, and disappeared.

On the stage it looked like a President and the Richard Dreyfus character, a gnarly device to make a President look even more Presidential.

In case anyone missed it, we did a TPMtv yesterday on the new community tools.  Hopefully it'll give you a sense of what we think this crazy thing is all about.

Check it out:



Let us know what you think. How's it going out there?

It's 4:40 in the morning, so the only possible reason I could be awake is to test TPM brand spanking new community tools. Read more about them here.

Sign in, look around, let us know what you think.  Consider this an open thread.

Bashing Hillary, fairly or unfairly, is both unnecessary and increasingly beside the point. 

I think most of us are well aware by  now that you and other members of the community think she's disingenuous and cynical and that she should drop out.  I'm not disagreeing with any of those things, but can't we come up with other things to talk about?

Just sayin'.