Social Tech: What an Internet enabled Insurgency is good for. Internet insurgencies are great for 2 things: the persuasion and coercion of those in power or those that want power. These insurgencies will be really powerful when they move beyond a blind attachment to a single candidate and start to exercise their power as outsiders.
A little freethinking: It is easy to imagine the day when social tech enabled interest groups vie with states for control of the party primary system. For example: imagine a well funded single issue group that represents a significant portion of the active voters setting up a national caucus or convention via Meet-up. Candidates from the two established parties would be invited to run in their primary process. Forget 2 parties. What about a dozen? [John Robb's Weblog]
Unfortunately it was so easy to imagine that even Congress could imagine it, so they passed the McCain-Feingold Incumbent Protection Act which effectively bars well funded single issue groups from participating in the political process.
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