Barack Obama’s win in Iowa is being dissected extensively in the US media. One such analysis is that he has been successful in attracting young voters into his campaign.

How Obama won in Iowa is told in this story in The Progressive. Good read, by the way.

Time Magazine reports that:

According to surveys of voters entering the caucuses, young voters preferred Obama over the next-closest competitor by more than 4 to 1. This suggests that the under-25 set — typically among the most elusive voters in all of politics — gave the Illinois senator a net gain of some 17,000 votes; Obama finished roughly 20,000 votes ahead of former senator John Edwards and Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Obama’s insurgent and subversive message of change got Ninotchka Rosca’s attention. Rosca belonged to a radical youth tradition.

After Iowa, Obama went on pounding his message of change and hope in New Hampshire, as we can read from this Newsweek interview with the man who trounched Hillary Clinton.

I may be an outsider but I can sense that Americans today yearn for change after long years of ultraconservative and ultra-rightwing thinking that has taken hold in the White House. They feel more insecure and unsecure even if their country leads and is purportedly winning a war on terrorism. Obama is sweeping many through his apt message.

Finally, a must read: Reading the Candidates by the Dissent Magazine.