Adam Nagourney

The White House faces many obstacles as it tries to accomplish what aides say is one of their most important goals: transforming the YouTubing-Facebooking-texting-Twittering grass-roots organization that put President Obama in the White House into an instrument of government.

For anyone who works for a company that is plagued by e-mail troubles, feel a little sympathy for the members of incoming Obama administration. Tomorrow, they are going to be forced to change their e-mail not once, but twice.

"I think we'll be analyzing this election for years as a seminal, transformative race," said Mark McKinnon, a senior adviser to President Bush's campaigns in 2000 and 2004. "The year campaigns leveraged the Internet in ways never imagined.