What is the new standard for who is reaching out to the grass/netroots and college activists? Who has a facebook group.
If you don't know what facebook is, it is, to summarize, the most popular social networking site for college students. I would estimate that more than 80% of college students have a facebook account, and many check it regularly. It also featured campagain specific tools for our races in Novemeber.
It also allows individual candidates or potential candidates to join and form groups about themselves, their PACs or "securing America's future". Basically it allows candidates to start enticing young activists (read: unpaid involved volunteers) towards their campaigns.
Who has them so far? I was just invited to Wesley Clark's group. I'm pretty sure Vilsack has a group too. Gore, Clinton, and Obama all have fan groups, but no official group yet. More to come later.