Quick Hits - Heading Down to DC

I'm leaving to catch a train down to DC in about an hour. I'm going to try to do some number crunching on the train. If that works out, I might have something interesting to report Thursday morning. Otherwise, I've got meetings tonight and all day tomorrow, so posting may be light depending on how much down-time I get.

• Nate Silver has some excellent data on how young voters - of all races - drove the opposition to Prop 8 in California. While we are all disappointed at the moment, that bodes well for the future. (h/t Jesse Singal)
• The University of Michigan College Democrats didn't like my post about the Dingell/Waxman fight, however their opposition seems based more on blind loyalty to Dingell than on the merits of my argument.
• In the NY Daily News, Gen-We authors Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber talk about what young voters will expect from an Obama administration.
• This is a little old and I can't believe I missed it. Columnist E.J. Dionne swipes our brand and writes a column about Obama and the Future Majority:
  

  Since the Nixon era, conservatives have claimed to speak for the "silent majority." Obama represents the future majority. It is the majority of a dynamic country increasingly at ease with its diversity. It reflects the forward-looking optimism of the young. It draws in new suburban and exurban voters whose priorities are resolutely practical -- jobs, schools and transportation -- and who dislike angry quarrels about gay marriage, abortion and religious orthodoxy.

• NPR's Farai Chideya says America's youth vote grows up, wields power.
• Slate has a great article about the potential and pitfalls of transitioning Obama's participatory, tech-driven campaign into a new era of participatory governance.
• King Politics provides us with a more nuanced view of the 2008 "youth only" electoral map: