http://bit.ly/qYeQ7R Andrew Rasiej, Net Centric Politics

Andrew Rasiej, founder and latest chairman of MOUSE, says, "Politics is damaged. Our democracy is damaged. There are 513,000 elected officials in this place. The partnership has been leading down. What we discovered from the Dean marketing campaign is the power of the individual to person link. 'There are 513,000 egocentric politicians in the US. Not one particular of them is netcentric.' If they had been netcentric, they'd say: 'My constituents know a lot more than I do.' We can use the Internet to help the status quo, which is how it is been up via now. Or we can use it to do something new."
Mr. Rasiej is also served on the New York Town Board of Education’s activity power on technological innovation and has spearheaded several progressive jobs that help efforts to bridge the “Digital Divide" in public schooling.

Mr. Rasiej is the chairman and co-founder of the Digital Club Network (DCN), the Internet’s largest live new music channel. DCN broadcasts concerts of set up and emerging artists from premier new music venues close to the planet and tends to make archive recordings of these performances available for totally free above the Net. Concurrent with his involvement in audio and engineering, Mr. Rasiej is also co-founder of the world’s largest annual digital audio conference, “Plug In" which is attended by executives from significant document labels and technological innovation firms.

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With presidential hopeful Rick Perry now foremost polls of GOP voters by double digits, Mitt Romney is obtaining to pivot toward the tea social gathering, which is not his organic constituency.Washington
Previous Gov. Mitt Romney (R) of Massachusetts usually realized he would have to kick up his presidential marketing campaign up a notch, but it is taking place a little quicker than anticipated. The reason: the Perry surge.
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Suddenly, Gov. Rick Perry (R) Texas is leading polls of GOP voters by double digits, knocking Mr. Romney out of the best spot. Now it’s video game on, and Governor Romney is heading out of his ease and comfort zone to deal with tea partyers – not his organic constituency – and go on the attack (albeit veiled) from Governor Perry.
On Sunday, he will address a tea party rally in Concord, N.H., and the subsequent day, will fly to South Carolina for a applicant forum hosted by the influential Sen. Jim DeMint (R) of South Carolina that Romney had initially made the decision to skip.

Deep red South Carolina is not considered Romney territory, but its principal is one particular of the earliest on the calendar, and Romney cannot cede that ground to the other candidates so shortly and so effortlessly, states Chip Felkel, a Republican strategist based in Greenville, S.C.
“He can’t lose by twenty points right here,” states Mr. Felkel, who is unaligned in the main. “You’ve obtained to present the flag a minor bit.”
The New Hampshire primary directly precedes South Carolina’s, and if Romney wins in New Hampshire as expected, a very poor exhibiting in South Carolina would damage his momentum.
Romney has visited South Carolina only the moment this yr, and Senator DeMint is an crucial power broker on the Republican proper. He backed Romney in 2008, and has yet to make an endorsement for 2012.
The New Hampshire tea social gathering function is a trickier call. Number of self-proclaimed tea get together activists back Romney for the nomination, and there is a chance he may well be inadequately obtained by the crowd in Concord. FreedomWorks, a Washington-primarily based group that trains tea partyers, programs to protest Romney’s look.
But on balance, it is a wise transfer for Romney to address the tea social gathering crowd in Concord, states Dante Scala, a political scientist at the University of New Hampshire.




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