The Power of Online Politics

By MSNBC

August 18, 2009

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Ari Melber, the Nation's Net Movement correspondent, shares his insights from the Netroots Nation conference on the direction Internet-based organizing is taking. Melber notes three new developments: reverse fundraising, where donors raise money for a primary challenger to a congressperson they don't like; donor strikes, where donors tell the politicians that they won't fundraise for them unless they vote a certain way; and the sort of ambush interviews practiced by the blog FireDogLake, where politicians are caught on video having to explain their positions on an issue.

--Sarah Jaffe

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