I'm a lurker. I don't really contribute to the site, using it mostly as a resource for getting the news a few weeks early and learning a few things from insightful contributors that I wouldn't find anywhere else. However, I was extremely active during the presidential campaign in that diaries and stories on Daily Kos motivated me to go door-to-door, phone bank, and donate the portion of my college loans and scholarships that wasn't essential for food or beer (I know, that's probably not kosher).
Anyway, I'm back to just lurking and being inactive. The Congressional Democrats haven't been giving me a reason to get excited and I'm not feeling the same urgency from Obama that I felt a year ago. In fact, judging from what I've been reading on the site, there seems to be a significant portion of the community that's feeling to same way: just itching to support someone who's willing to fight for the public option.
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