Students Unite! MyDD a Youth Blog?

Locked behind the subscriber wall, The Nation reports on an unlikely coalition of student groups uniting under for the common purpose of ending the war in Iraq.

While radical groups have tempered their tone and tactics, mainstream progressive student organizations have become less cautious and more willing to engage in direct action--and all sides, for the first time in years, are eager to work together. "We've realized the war is more important [than our differences]," says Duhalde.

This definitely shines some light on those microgrants that Campus Progress is giving out. If this works out on more than a theoretical level, it could be huge. Imagine, the radical students not driving people away with outrageous tactics that overshadow the message. Imagine the college democrats shedding their image as resume padding wannabe politicos and doing more than issuing press releases with milquetoast messages.

The groups are releasing a manifesto on Monday - which I'm sure people here will be itching to read and deconstruct.

Also interesting reading this morning - Chris Bower at MyDD tried to find the reason that Barack gets lots of support at MyDD, while Edwards is running away with the Dkos straw polls. After digging into the demographic data of the two sites, his conclusion is pretty interesting - MyDD is a far younger community than Daily Kos. Bowers attributes this to the fact that a majority of MyDD writers are under 30, and notes the irony that the young'ns at MyDD are so much more pragmatic and serious than those at dKos. Makes perfect sense to me.