Better Start Watching

With the surprise announcement of Sandra Day O'Connor today, there is an excellent opportunity to see politics and the new media in action. Both sides are going to be full speed ahead as soon as possible. I think what happens over the next 24 hours through the use of the Internet will be an incredible case study in the power of the Internet in politics. There is already a post at Daily Kos of ways you can get involved. Before the Internet the time it would take to mobilize would be exponentially greater. It is great, for observation, that this happened during the time we are all taking this class. It is especially interesting because of the rapid mobilization that will take place. A large part of the real battle will be how well the sides organize in the next 24 hours and the Internet will be critical to the effort.