Not Mistaken

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, whose outsider presidential campaign is polling at 32 percent in New Hampshire (compared to 44 percent for Hillary Clinton), tells the Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift, “I have a lot of respect and admiration for Barack Obama,” but the “biggest mistake” he made after running “one of the great campaigns in American history” was saying to the legions of people who supported him, “Thank you very much for electing me, I’ll take it from here.” Sanders added, “I will not make that mistake.”

In The Intercept, Jon Schwartz reminds readers how Marshall Ganz, one of the key architects of Obama’s grassroots organizing strategy in 2008, came to criticize Obama for demobilizing the army that elected him. (For some deeper background on that story, here’s my 2009 techPresident piece on “The Obama Disconnect.”)

Huge Obama-like crowds have been showing up for Sanders’ events in Iowa, New Hampshire and non-primary venues like Minneapolis, Tamara Keith reports for NPR.

Writing in the New York Observer, former Democratic congressional aide and Hill columnist Brent Budowsky puts the odds of Sanders upsetting Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucus “at nearly 40 percent.”

According to Google Trends, interest in United States in the search term “Bernie Sanders” has just surpassed interest in the term “Hillary Clinton.” (Interest in both is substantially higher than Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz.)

Speaking of Obama mistakes, Alex Howard takes a closer look in the Huffington Post at how President Obama came to personally invest in recruiting technology talent for his administration, building on yesterday’s story by Jon Gertner for Fast Company.

Shazna Nessa and Jennifer Preston of the Knight Foundation take to the foundation’s blog to explain why it is investing $2.6 million to create a mobile lab inside Guardian U.S. “to experiment with new and engaging ways for people to consumer news on smaller screens.”

VoteRunLead’s blog highlights many of the women leaders who shined during Personal Democracy Forum, including Haley Van Dyck, Nancy Lublin, Lizz Brown, Kimberly Ellis, Kate Krontiris, Deanna Zandt, and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers.