A Perfect Opportunity for Surrogates

Matt Singer is the CEO of Forward Montana, a state-based organization dedicated to increasing youth involvement in progressive politics.

Watching from afar, the massive pushback on the Yepsen BS in Iowa has been heartening. These college students have the right to caucus. Period. All the efforts to imply otherwise are voter suppression, plain and simple.

All that said, I'm left wondering why the Obama campaign isn't fighting back more with student surrogates. No doubt the campaign has some native Iowa leaders in their Students for Obama who could swing back -- and help demonstrate the extent to which the Obama campaign wants to empower students.

The Iowa PIRGs have done a great job putting students in the vanguard of their pushback of the Presidential campaigns -- and students fighting for the student voice makes for great copy.

So from here in Montana, a big hats off to the PIRGs, Young Dems, Rock the Vote, and everyone else fighting for the right to caucus.