Obama just got over 1 million donors.

That number is nearly one percent of all voters who voted in the 2004 general election. Think about that– Barack Obama has successfully persuaded nearly 1 in 100 voters to give him money. Those same donors have disproportionately gone out and volunteered to get out the vote, not just for Obama, but for the Democratic Party more generally.

Obama has managed to get people embracing democracy through the mechanism of the, er, Democratic Party. He’s presented people with the option to make the Democratic Party the party of actual democracy. And boy howdy are they taking it.

Unlike Clinton, Obama is eager to support other candidates, to create a political infrastructure that can benefit anyone running for office, not just a single guy running for President. That expansiveness and graciousness is extraordinary politically.

This entire election cycle and the shocking contrast in the various campaigns is historic. All the Presidential candidates are making history. Impressive stuff.