Election 2008 Update
Getting Up to Speed on Space, Science (subscription)
“Blogs such as Space Politics and NASA Watch, and organizations such as the Mars Society, keep a close eye on every utterance by a candidate on space policy. They instruct their audience how to contact the campaigns and even coach readers on how to get a space question inserted into a presidential debate. And they are being heard. “It’s a small but vocal group, and they’ve reached out from the beginning,” says the Obama staffer. “I’m impressed with the grassroots effort,” adds Lori Garver, a Washington, D.C., space consultant and former NASA official who advises Obama’s chief rival, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY). “They’ve done more than all the sophisticated lobbyists.”