There's already change.gov. Here's a note I got from a local volunteer reminding supporters to stay engaged:
On Jan. 20 Barack Obama will take his seat in the Oval Office with the most powerful mandate in a generation; a mandate that each of you helped build. Despite the months of hard work you all have done, I know that many of you are asking yourselves, "What now? What next? What more can I do?" You have poured your hearts and souls into the last several weeks and aren't willing to stop now!
I have a feeling that the next few years are going to be like nothing this country or world has ever seen.
So first, let me say: Technically, Barack is not President yet, but he DOES have plans for us!! He WILL need us to help him move this country forward, so KEEP YOUR ENERGY AND ENTHUSIASM UP! One thing you can do right now is go to http://www.change.gov and learn about the transition plans.
Barack's core team (Plouffe, Axelrod, etc), sat down with 60 Minutes only an hour after Obama's speech Tuesday night. Right back to business, that's what our country needs. We will be gearing back up too. Please be assured by the fact that there is a plan for us! We will continue to be in touch as the weeks go on, and expect to have more information for you shortly.
Stay tuned!
NPR has a report:
Obama took the foundation that Dean himself dug in 2004 — the small-dollar Internet fundraising and the DNC's 50-state strategy — and erected a powerful political infrastructure. The numbers are eye-popping: 10 million names on an e-mail list, 3.1 million donors. But the most important number of all may be the tens of thousands of what the campaign called "supervolunteers," people who worked sometimes 40 to 50 hours a week for Obama.
"We've run sort of a giant experiment here in volunteer management, and we want to take a look at the lessons learned from that," says Jon Carson, national field director for the campaign. He's one of the people trying to figure out what to do with the grass-roots movement Obama created.
"As President-elect Obama takes office and a legislative agenda is put together," Carson says, "I think in the same way these incredible volunteers that we had carried his message throughout the campaign, talking to their neighbors about why he was the right candidate to bring the change that we needed — I can see them, in a similar way, explaining a health care proposal, explaining whatever issue it is."
And as soon as they're done explaining Obama's plans to their neighbors, the president-elect can skirt the so-called media filter and urge them through text messages, e-mails and video links to indundate their Congress members with expressions of support for his agenda.
Tony Loyd of Racine, Wis., is part of Obama's grass-roots movement. He signed up and became an Obama team leader, helping to get out the vote. Loyd recently launched a Web site called yeswecanracine. By the next morning, it had 12 members.
"There is an entire army out here who is anxious to continue to push in the same direction, and whatever he asks us to do, we will do," Loyd says. "If he needs me to call my member of Congress, I'm perfectly willing to do that. And the beauty of the Web-enabled infrastructure that he built is the fact that it gives us all a way to be part of the conversation — both uploading our ideas and downloading from the Obama administration."
