What's next, bowling for dollars?
Taking a page from National Public Radio fundraising drives, the Barack Obama campaign has introduced a "Double Your Impact" scheme in which donors get to meet other donors who give similar amounts. The ploy is you sign up and offer to donate, say, $5, which is the minimum option on the site. The Obamans then troll for someone who will match your $5 donation, and then introduce you electronically.
Voila! Instant friendship! Kind of like a dating game show ... where you really don't know who you might get paired with.
-- Scott Martelle
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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