South Carolina guv Mark Sanford has resurfaced. Getting off a plane in Atlanta on his way back from Bueno Aires this morning he declared that he went because he "wanted to do something exotic."
No one here at TPM has ever been to Argentina, so maybe you can help us out. Any guesses as to Sanford's exotic exploits? Searching for Obama's birth certificate? Hunting Nazi war criminals? I'll leave it to you.
The news just keeps breaking these days. NPR reports that Supreme Court Justice David Souter has informed the White House of his intention to retire and return to New Hampshire. He'll remain on the court until his replacement is confirmed.
What do you think? Who do you expect President Obama will put in there? We don't know a lot yet, but never too soon to start talking!
I'm convinced that progressives own the future. Not because Obama won (although that was pretty nice), but because the intellectual energy in America today is young and on the Left.
To make this case (and in light of the timeless practice of end-of-the-year list-making), I've put together a list of 10 young (under 40) intellectuals who I believe to be shaping a progressive future that is forward-looking, effortlessly intersectional, technologically sophisticated and engaged in not just the world of ideas but the world as it is lived. In other words, they're of the left, they're brilliant and they're helping to get shit done.
These are the ten young progressives who make me hopeful for the future. (I've included a video of each in case you're meeting them for the first time).
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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:
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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.
As Josh said yesterday, it's clear that the McCain campaign will finish up the race with a Greatest Hits of their racist McCarthyite campaign. Their bet? The media won't fight back with enough force to make calling Obama a Muslim socialist terrorist a net negative.
The media sphere proving them wrong would be a victory not just for the Obama campaign, but for society as a whole and the forces of tolerance and rationality broadly. And some people are making an effort.
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?
Many of you might not know that in addition to being a network of news blogs, TPM is a community with thousands of members. Anyone who wants to can sign in to have his or her own blog, comment on the posts of other readers or TPM staffers, or recommend favorite posts to others.
Today we're announcing myTPM, an upgrade to the current system and a new set of tools that allow you to customize your community experience and choose your favorite contributors to follow. I explain in today's TPMtv...
Full-size video at TPMtv.com.
PS: A written explanation of the new tools is here.
We're happy to announce that as of right now, we've launched onto a new server set-up and so far so good (cross your fingers for us). This should mean that your comments and blog posts should go up very quickly without any errors or repeats. Let us know it that's what you're seeing.
Coming up next (next two weeks is our plan), new software and new tools.
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