CNN: From Howard Dean to the tea party: The power of Meetup.com

[neverseen]

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There's an important clue here about how the Internet will affect the politics of 2012. As outside-the-establishment movements like the tea party, Occupy Wall Street and Ron Paul followers are showing, the two-party system isn't big enough to absorb the concerns and passions of hundreds of thousands of grass-roots activists. And these are the people who, despite being a minority of the larger population, can drive the agenda in new directions.

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[kazmlsj]

I saw this on the interactive CNN channel last night - the article had Ron Paul's face on it but what was written there did not mention Ron Paul - only Dean.

Thanks for posting this...interesting comment about the two-party system...THAT in itself is an important shift in thinking.