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Saturday reading: Spending
Ben Smith's Blog — Ultimately, Obama gets a huge win. Zephyr Teachout may be right: Organizing for America finds the activist base much diminished. Eleanor Clift wants Dean at HHS. A (felonious) former aide raises questions about Steele's '06 spending. Obama impresses Cole bombing victims' families. Israelis are depressed about their election. Biden speaks in Munich. Todd Palin is found in contempt of the Alaska State Senate. And Bill Burton is promoted.

Stimulating the Netroots
The Caucus — ... has been whether his netroots base could be repurposed to help promote his policy agenda, so observers are already looking for signs of success or failure in the house meetings. Frank Greve of McClatchy , using online sign-up lists, determines that “few supporters” are responding. But the Democratic Party is pushing back, noting that the online rosters are not representative of actual turnout (The Atlantic’s ...

Daily Digest: Grading OFA's Organizing, Building a Bill Buffer, Remixing the President
techPresident — ... . So, how'd the new organization, an outgrowth of the Obama campaign, perform? Depends who you ask. McClatchy's Frank Greve's piece on the house parties intended to spur engagement around economic recovery ran under a headline calling the effort "a bust." (Though, we're thinking that harsh verdict might have been more a headline writer's than the author's.) Greve's evidence includes the fact that Sacramento's events had only 78 committed attendees where, an interviewee suggests, an Obama campaign event might have had 500. In other news, Super Bowl ...