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Is a British Obama possible?
Obama ’08 (photo by beebo wallace) Harvard and Manchester through the SCHMi collaboration released their findings about whether a British Obama is possible. Broadly we found that substantial...
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Great day for national service
Community Service Graffiti (look closely)-by EgoAnt The number of Americans annually participating in national service programs will triple under legislation approved today by the House of...
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No gap in black-white turnout in 2008 elections; youth gap narrowing
The Pew Research Center, in partnership with CIRCLE released a report showing that Asians, Hispanics and Blacks voted in record numbers in the 2008 election, partially spurred by the magnetic candidacy...
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Is Global Recession Increasing U.S. Engagement?
(Flickr photo by jam343) Typically and historically the effects of a great recession or significant levels of unemployment have been greater civic disengagement. There have been interesting studies on...
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OFA: Harnessing Obama’s grassroots network in Massachusetts
A couple of weeks ago (on May 16), Organizing for America [OFA], the grassroots network that was called Obama for America, had an organizing meeting in Massachusetts that drew over 400 attendees....
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The youth Democratic surge that wasn’t
Flickr photo by tinyinsomniac One key problem for the democrats in Tuesday’s election was that young voters stayed home. Voters ages 18-29 made up 11% of the voters yesterday (according to exit polls);...
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Obama speech calls us to our higher angels of political discourse
President Obama responded to the tragic shooting of 20 on January 8, 2011 including Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in with a wonderful and healing memorial speech in Tucson, calling for a higher level of...
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Call the White House: Avoid a sad day for service
President Obama and Speaker John Boehner agreed to $37.6 billion in cuts for FY11. Details are now leaking out of where those cuts will come from. Apparently while they would largely save AmeriCorps,...
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What Big Sort?
Political scientists Mo Fiorina (Stanford) and Sam Abrams (Sarah Lawrence College) have done work analyzing and ultimately critiquing Bill Bishop and Robert Cushing’s popular Big Sort. Synopsis of Big...
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The Lessons of MLK, Jr. and 1961′s Freedom Riders
1961 Freedom Ride Harvard student Pete Davis, founder of OurCommonPlace and participant in the 50th anniversary celebration of the 1961 Freedom Ride last summer with 39 other activists, gave a terrific...
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