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I have started tracking the number of Twitter followers each of four major candidates currently have. I am using this as a proxy for their usage of the social media and internet tools necessary to rebuilding the party over the next four years. The higher the number of followers, the lower the candidate's Brain Dead Luddite score. That's a good thing, because we don't need any more Brain Dead Luddites running the party. As of November 27, here's how it looks: Saul Anuzis@sanuzis 403 follower… Continue

Tennessean Chip Saltsman, most recently the manager of Mike Huckabee's remarkably successful "up from nowhere" 2008 Presidential campaign, has thrown his hat in the ring as a candidate for the Republican National Committee Chairmanship position. At forty, Saltsman is the youngest of the announced candidates and arguably has the most electoral success in his background. He helped the ignoble Don Sundquist win the Governorship in Tennessee back in 1994, and has been involved in several successful… Continue