Quick Hits -- October 12th: Battleground State Edition

Your Sunday reading. Enjoy!

• All those new Democratic voters are emerging as a huge force for Obama everywhere, especially in Pennsylvania.
• Time's "battleground" profile on the race in Virginia.
• Video of a great interview between Luke Russert and Barack Obama on young people. This was a long time ago politically -- Luke asks Obama about the "lipstick" comments:

• Although they're too young to vote, they're not too young to be politically involved.
• Ari Melber looks at the ground-breaking Obama GOTV operation.
• Talk about a generational divide brewing: a first grade class surprises their lesbian teacher by throwing rose petals at her San Francisco City Hall wedding ceremony.
• An article at the Personal Democracy Forum looks at the renovation of change.org and what it can become.
• Obama signs at Quantico -- one of the largest military bases in America?? Sounds like change to me!
• The Houston Chronicle has a write-up confirming what we already know: college students have to scale a plethora of obstacles in order to actually vote.