Excellent story on NPR about the continued vitality of Obama's grassroots movement and its future.

Many UAPAers fall in the "supervolunteer" category :-)

But the most important number of all may be the tens of thousands of what the campaign called "supervolunteers," people who worked sometimes 40 to 50 hours a week for Obama.

"We've run sort of a giant experiment here in volunteer management, and we want to take a look at the lessons learned from that," says Jon Carson, national field director for the campaign. He's one of the people trying to figure out what to do with the grass-roots movement Obama created.

"As President-elect Obama takes office and a legislative agenda is put together," Carson says, "I think in the same way these incredible volunteers that we had carried his message throughout the campaign, talking to their neighbors about why he was the right candidate to bring the change that we needed — I can see them, in a similar way, explaining a health care proposal, explaining whatever issue it is."

The story's byline: "Barack Obama must be as innovative in using supporters' power now as he was during the campaign."