‘In November 2007, at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson dinner, Hillary Clinton’s top adviser, Mandy Grunwald, and chief strategist, Mark Penn, examined the Obama supporters in the room. “Our people look like caucus-goers,” Ms. Grunwald told reporters, according to Politico.com, “and his people look like they are 18. Penn said they look like Facebook.”
But Mr. Obama’s Facebook generation made its voice heard on Election Day. Twenty-three million young voters turned out last week, the most since 1984.’

“As President-elect Barack Obama begins to assemble tough, pragmatic problem-solvers for his team, he ought to consider Joel Klein. We cannot think of anyone more qualified to be secretary of education than New York’s schools chancellor. He has just the right mix of abrasiveness and charm to take on this important task. We’re hesitant to lose him, because he has done a remarkable job in New York. But if he can do for the nation what he has done in New York, we’ll all be better off.”