Crossposted on One Million Strong

(h/t TAPPED)

According to the LA Times, student activists, universities, and state officials have embarked on an expansive and unprecedented effort to boost student turnout in the Iowa caucus –– responding to the early caucus date by convincing students that caucusing in their hometowns during winter vacation might dramatically boost their influence over the process.

The roots of Students for Barack Obama are the stuff of legend: 

In the summer of 2006, on July 7th, some eight months before Obama announced his run for president, Bowdoin College junior Meredith Segal created a Facebook group that went on to reach fully-fledged PAC-status before being rolled into Obama's campaign organization as its official student wing.

By February when Obama's campaign was actually launched nine months ago, Students for Barack Obama was already:

a political action committee with nearly 62,000 members and chapters at 80 colleges, the most structured grass-roots student movement -- there's a director of field operations, an Internet director, a finance director and a blog team director -- in the presidential campaign so far.

This week's look at what Students for Barack Obama is doing...