On a related note, there's a very interesting piece in the Jan 26 issue of Time Magazine titled "Obama's Permanent Grass-Roots Campaign" around the general population who got involved with the Obama Presidential Campaign.
From the 20,000 people trained in community organizing to 3 million people who donated money and 13 million who supplied their e-mail contact info, this is a large group of people with the ability to continue aiding the cause of what will now be the Obama Administration.