In an exercise of intellectual curiosity—otherwise known as a department dicta—I subscribed to the email lists of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, MoveOn.org, and Dennis Kucinich’s Weekly UFO Roundup to keep an eye on the competition’s online strategy. John Edwards kindly returned to the shadows of a now-competitive (blue) North Carolina, ditto for Kucinich to the mother ship, but those hipsters at MoveOn apparently didn’t get the memo.

To “keep the momentum going,” ie continue their 5 month Obama circle jerk, Team MoveOn has broken from their almost daily cash solicitation to embark on a new journey of enlightenment:

It’s clear that MoveOn members are fired up and ready to go! So we’ve decided to hold "Fired up and ready to go" gatherings in every community next Thursday, November 20th. We’ll get together to celebrate our big win, brainstorm next steps for our organizing, and kick off our efforts to help Obama make bold, progressive changes.

We need someone in your neighborhood to host a gathering so that everyone who helped make this victory possible can come together to keep the momentum going. Can you host a gathering? (I wasn’t pretentious enough to bolden the above excerpt; "Nita, Justin, Karin, Anna and the rest of the team" were already on top of that)

These Obama “gatherings”—which, as far as I can tell, amounts to an Obama commune (an Obammune if you will)—seems suspiciously familiar to Paulville, the “libertarian paradise” and quasi-commune.

Question 1: What meaningful results, or continued momentum, can really come from these gatherings? More to the point, what’s a good metric to judge continued momentum? (High approval rating, I suspect) Question 2: Does MoveOn even have the time to orchestrate such a considerable undertaking? After all, libeling a 4 star general is full-time work.