UpTake to Stream the Minnesota State Democratic Party Convention

The Uptake, an organization dedicated to "advancing democracy through citizen journalism," unveiled its plans yesterday to dispatch its team of citizen reporters to Rochester, MN to cover the Minnesota State Democratic Party Convention. Kicking off with Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean's opening address on Friday June 6, the Uptake will offer the first ever live video streaming coverage of the state's Democratic Party Convention -- in its entirety. They also promise to deliver lots of behind-the-scenes interviews and special reports from the convention hall. Check out their official announcement on YouTube here:



The Minnesota Democratic Senate race between the two dynamic candidates, Al Franken and Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, has drawn a great deal of media attention, and the Uptake plans to provide political junkies uninterrupted coverage of the convention on their website. Users will also have multiple ways to engage and participate in their live coverage at theuptake.org

The Verdict Is in: College Dem Superdelegates Endorse Obama

More than two weeks ago, superdelegates Lauren Wolfe and Awais Khaleel, President and Vice President of the College Democrats, created a call-out video on YouTube (our earlier blog post here), in which they asked for help in deciding who to support as the Democratic presidential nominee.

Big surprise: after receiving 5,000 emails, 1,000 Facebook messages and wall posts, and hundreds of comments from YouTubers in response to their video, Lauren and Awais announced their endorsement yesterday of... Senator Barack Obama.