The majestic Howard Dean coalition - youth, new voters, the "wired," the "disenfranchised" - remains the France of electoral coalition-building: genuinely useful, if only it would freaking show up for the freaking fight. Sorry, but I'm a bit bitter about this. Participation soared across every demographic, including the underestimated People Michael Moore Likes to Make Fun of. But the young-new-"disenfranchised" set sat around and played Halo 2 on the X-box instead of, you know, freaking voting. These are the same people who couldn't be arsed to pick up the phones at Dean headquarters in South Carolina when I was there in January. (Fun Canadian fact: the Canadian leader who has put all of his hopes - and I mean all his hopes - on the Howard Dean coalition of non-voting non-voters is Jack Layton. Explains a lot, really.)