One million people working to bring about change.

This is why this guy will be elected come November. He really is introducing a new kind of politics which understands how to use modern technology to encourage an interactive electoral process. These are the same principles which he used to fund his campaign directly from his web site.

On May 10th, Barack Obama is launching Vote for Change, an unprecedented 50-state voter registration and mobilization drive. More than 100 events will be held across the country that day. Obama volunteers will register new voters as the start of a six-month voter registration drive.

Ambinder gets the significance of this:

The Obama campaign calls its "Vote for Change" voter registration drive a mere voter registration drive. Nothing to see here, folks, except for ordinary people helping ordinary people gain the franchise.

But it's more than that. The Vote For Change program will lay the foundation for Obama's general election get-out-the-vote efforts. Obama aides won't say much more, but I gather that the campaign is constructing an incredibly elaborate online interface to allow its more than a million donors and volunteers to directly persuade their neighbors through a variety of media. Names gathered from the voter registration effort will be merged with names gathered through Obama's primary efforts and the names off of the Democratic Party's integrated voter file as well as lists purchased from outside vendors.

On election day, Obama might have more than a million individuals volunteering on his behalf. That should scare the beejeesus out of the McCain campaign and the RNC.

A million people, all feeling that they personally have a stake in getting Barack Obama elected to bring about change.

This is the kind of thing that he has already been doing throughout this election campaign:

Recent voter registration drives organized by the Obama campaign have helped in gaining more than 200,000 new Democratic registrations in Pennsylvania, more than 165,000 new Democrats in North Carolina, and more than 150,000 new Democrats in Indiana.

Come election day he could well have more than a million volunteers working on his behalf, a million people dedicated to bringing about change.

That's inspiring.

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Tags: Barack Obama, one million volunteers, voter registration drive, US election 2008