For a variety of reasons, I’m rapidly warming to Obama. Any political leader who can turn out 20,000 Americans, well, something really special is going on over there, and I hope he has the courage and conviction to turn it into something transformative.

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.