Since mourning the deplorable state of American politics is the cool thing to do nowadays, I thought people might be interested to hear about Unity08. As the name implies, the idea behind it is a dissatisfaction with the current polarization of the two-party system. Apparently, a number of veteran campaign coordinators, instrumental in the early days of television campaigning, are just as sickened by what the system has become as much of the voting public, and their solution is to try to intervene using the internet, and hopefully prevent it from becoming equally detrimental. The way they settled on is creating an online movement to form a bipartisan ticket based entirely on small donations, with the aim of entering it as a temporary third party on a national level. It's an interesting idea, and at least promises to shake things up over the next 22 months. Read about it in this Atlantic article, "Surprise Party," and if you like what you hear, spread the word at work, school, among friends and family, etc. I'm curious to see how far this will go.

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