Obama Wins Iowa with Huge Youth Turnout

It is simply amazing. Obama's victory speech tonight was quite good and I'm looking forward to the next few days of politicking for New Hampshire.



I will be writing more extensively tomorrow, but wanted to provide a couple of links to some great blog posts:

• Chris Bowers: A New Generation Takes Charge Of The Democratic Party
• Kos: The triumph of our Democratic field
• Mike Connery: Youth Vote in Iowa Triples: Young Voters Prove the Naysayers Wrong
• Mike Connery: The League and MoveOn Team Up for a Digital Primary
• Josh Marshall: Where We Are
  

Here is a sampling of recent status updates from my Facebook network:

• Chi-Chi Achebe is marveling at the Audacity of Hope...and its ability to silence nay-sayers.
• Daniel Richard Patton is OBAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
• Ross Tyler Avila is so proud of everyone who came together to caucus for Obama and give him a resounding victory.
• Hayling Price thanks Iowa for making history.
• Ramya Raghavan is thinking that a young voter revolution is a brewin.'
• Don Engel is impressed that Obama's victory speech mentioned energy research and the world outside the U.S. and Iraq. He wishes other candidates had done the same.
• Abraham Kneisley is SO happy Hillary came in third in Iowa.
• Alan Dang hearts huckabee.
• Ezra Billinkoff is hoping Clinton pulls her shit together. Now it's serious.
• Brandon Celestin is happy for Obama...but still rooting for Hillary.
  

People are definitely excited and things are looking great for 2008.

~BT