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 <title>I think you&#039;ve drank the kool-aid</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;I don&#039;t think Phil DeVellis is just any other voter, much in the same way I dont see myself as any regular grassroots, pulled up the salt of the earth &#039;netroots&#039; blogger.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DeVellis is political consultant who took a chance at working on his own with a campaign. And I want to stress the phrase POLITICAL CONSULTANT. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have much more to add to this on my blog and if Micah wants me, I&#039;ll add the post here at TechP, but honestly, let&#039;s be clear : ONCE A POLITICAL CONSULTANT, ALWAYS A POLITICAL CONSULTANT. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rolodexes are the measure by which one should be distinguishing a regular voter from a political insider. &lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:13:26 -0400</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Liza Sabater</dc:creator>
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 <title>The New Influencers</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Over the past two weeks, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-de-vellis-aka-parkridge/i-made-the-vote-differen_b_43989.html&quot;&gt;ParkRidge47&lt;/a&gt; has effectively and persuasively illustrated the role voter-generated content will play in race to 2008.  With over 2.3M views at time of writing, his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo&quot;&gt;1984 culture-jack&lt;/a&gt; has become the canonical example of a voter-generated content coup.  And while ParkRidge47 deserves a tremendous amount of credit for his work, it is important to remember that his is just one piece in an evolving story - why, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dycbAsB9-ps&quot;&gt;laughable Anti-Obama version&lt;/a&gt; of the ad has over 380k views despite its one-star rating.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/182/the_new_influencers&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:57:56 -0400</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Fred Stutzman</dc:creator>
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