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…[N]o serious political initiative would launch today without a strategy for online fundraising, blog engagement and netroots activist recruitment. But technological advances are not inherently empowering, progressive or egalitarian. Much of the online audience is richer, more educated and less diverse than the rest of America, according to an October 2005 study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Politics is, after all, played out by rich folks on one side vs. rich folks on the other. Whether or not I am rich in terms of account balances, I am rich in the head, and rich in knowledge, and rich in access. As are you.