PAC-Northwest Arkansas -- UPDATE

Skip Rutherford and Bruce Lindsey, members of President Clinton’s transition team, will talk about what President-Elect Obama faces over the next 10 or so weeks at tomorrow's meeting of the Political Animals Club of Northwest Arkansas in Fayetteville. Any reports welcome.

Update: Here's an account from Doug Thompson (with permission) that didn't post to the Morning News site (thanks, Morning News):

By Doug Thompson
The Morning News

FAYETTEVILLE - Barack Obama has a politically effective, direct connection to voters though e-mail and the Internet unlike any president seen before, advisers to former president Bill Clinton said Tuesday.

“Obama's database has 10 million e-mail addresses in it. He got 60 million votes, so he's in direct contact with a large part of his constituency,” said James L. “Skip” Rutherford, dean of the University of Arkansas’s Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock. He and Bruce Lindsey, director of the Clinton Foundation and former White House director of personnel, spoke to the Political Animals of Northwest Arkansas on Tuesday at the Clarion Inn in Fayetteville.

“What newspapers were to President McKinley, what radio was to Franklin D. Roosevelt and what television was to John F. Kennedy, technology will be to Barack Obama,” Rutherford said. He and Lindsey also spoke Monday at a political science class taught by former Sen. David Pryor at the University of Arkansas.

Remainder on the jump.