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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Didn't Obama weaken the lefty grass roots organizations in favor of his own organizations in the primaries? Sounds like that centralized planning thing might not be working out any better for him than it has for other tin horn dictators.

Weren't there also a few missteps by his campaign as well? I seem to remember that he promised a few million folks that he would text / email / tweet the name of his Vice President before anyone else. Then he didn't follow through.
3 posted on 09/19/2009 12:59:56 AM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Why buy health insurance at all if you can't be turned down for any pre-existing conditions?)
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To: Question Liberal Authority
You're absolutely right.

Libertarians and conservatives aren't using the Internet to organize in the same manner that the Bolshies did last year. All sides are leveraging the Internet, yes. But fittingly, the left's method relied on centralization. It was a top-down affair: meetups and rallies were planned and organized from the top-down. The party machine was involved at every stage.

On the right, this is simply not the case. Santelli ignited a spark that was distributed and magnified via the Internet. The original day of tea parties was highly-decentralized and 9/12 was remarkably decentralized and ad hoc. There still isn't an accurate count of just how many towns saw protests that day or on 9/12. Individuals just bloody showed up. Individuals chartered their own buses. It was pretty damned interesting to see how huge it was, despite the lack of central planning.

9 posted on 09/19/2009 10:13:56 AM PDT by upstanding
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