Stephen Colbert is 1 Million Strong; Dodd Comes Out Swinging for Students
As of this writing, Stephen Colbert has become the first presidential candidate to actually pass the 1 million strong mark, with 1,005,608 members in his Facebook group.
In other news, Chris Dodd, who has been a strong progressive voice on the campaign trail lately, is coming out strong against overpayment to corporate lenders by the government on student loans. Dodd wants the total costs of those over-payments recouped and funneled back into the Pell Grant program, which would raise the maximum grant by another $100 per semester.
Also worth checking out this morning - the Missoula Independent has an in-depth profile of Matt Singer, CEO of Forward Montana.
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Colbert group claims to have registered 1,350 people to vote
through the Rock the Vote link on their page. Pretty neat.
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That is very cool.
Does RTV have a running tally anywhere of how many people have registered through their tool or by individual users? It's nice to know Colbert is doing better than Tyra Banks, but I wonder how well he's doing against others using the tool.
Dunno
I'd be really interested if you find one though.
Strong to Very Strong
Coming out in favor of recouping the overpayments is a very bold move. If he keeps it up Dodd might really start making waves.
He's registered 3,634
as of right now. I'm peeking at the MySQL table for the widget. The completion rate for the users is really high, out of 3,860 who began the process 3634 completed the process.
Transparency
So what about opening up the full tallies from the widget to the public? Any chance of WA or RtV doing that? It would be awesome to see not only how many people are registered, but where they are coming from and who's really doing the heavy lifting in terms of online voter registration.
I'd love to see what the long tail of that trend looks like vs. the short head.