One thing I did find very interesting on that MeFi thread, wilful, was the number of people who got very upset to not get an immediate response once the donations had racked up, without realising that it was the week before the primaries for that district, so that he was no doubt out and about knocking on doors and shaking hands and all that stuff to get out the vote before coming home to snatch some brief sleep. It’s understandable that monitoring internet threads wouldn’t have been his top priority at the time (although at some time a quick note along the lines of *wow - look at those funds - thank you all so much and will update my blog with details after the primaries* would have soothed oh so many ruffled feathers).

I can imagine that getting the balance right between face to face voting-base stuff and online fund-raising stuff is ultimately going to be the challenge that all such campaigns will face.

The cartoon he copies XKCD is a great (geeky) read!

I’m not one with expertise on the grassroots of campaigning, but I would imagine that a combination of good-old fashioned door-knocking and an online outreach like this could do wonders for a lot of candidates for local elections.

Sean Tevis posted on that thread a few times (as stevis), updating his immigration position in the process.