Barack Obama's campaign today confirmed that they totally weren't kidding about the whole text message vice president thing. While he's not quite asking his supporters to pick his running mate American Idol-style, he's doing potentially the next best thing: giving them the heads up on his choice via SMS.

"Let me be very clear," wrote Obama spokesman, David Plouffe in an e-mail sent out today. "You are the ones who built this campaign, and Barack wants you to be the first to know who will join him in leading our movement for change."

By filling out a form on his site or texting VP to 62262 (seriously), cell phone owners can be among the first to find out the presumptive Democratic nominee's running mate (that is, assuming that they don't have one of those iffy new Apple iPhones).