Urban, middle class voters in Iran are making use of cellphones and the internet encourage others to vote against current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his policies. The government is starting to get bit rattled, especially since many urban voters boycotted the 2005 election, allowing Ahmadinejad's rural base to put him in office.

How rattled is the current government? They shut off access to Facebook on May 23, only to relent 3 days later after complaints from some candidates.

Obama will be first President since Teddy Roosevelt who's spent his entire life in large cities:

"If you don't live in a city, you look at them like they're basket cases," says Amy Liu, deputy director of the Brooking Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program. "But Obama doesn't talk about urban policy in the traditional sense of distressed neighborhoods and crime. He talks about the assets he sees and about leveraging those assets."