College Dems at the Winter Meeting

Between various caucuses at the Winter Meeting, I sat down with Sean Smith, President of the George Washington University Chapter of the College Democrats of America (CDA). His chapter is the largest and most active organization on their campus, with over 1,000 members.

Most of my early questions dealt with new media and how CDA chapters utilize social networks like Facebook for their organizing. Sean told me how they have had success using it to promote their events and spread the word. One of the useful – and fairly new – features of Facebook is the feed, which updates users on all the actions of their friends. So when, say, 50 people sign up to come to the James Carville speaking event, 250 of their friends immediately find out their friend is going and can easily join them.

We talked about other ways their chapter is building on the past successes – implementing an alumni project and trying to build some sort of database to keep people connected after graduation, for example. These are the kinds of reforms taking place all over the country as the College Democrats (as well as the Young Democrats, who also deserve recognition) reform and rebuild.

Thanks to Sean and the rest of these emerging leaders of the Democratic Party, there's hope for the future of this Nation.

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