The self-styled maverick had been driven by polls to adopt the issues, if not the precise stands, that Bill Clinton and the Democrats championed.
Citizens leaning toward each extreme tend to adopt the issues of their fellow extremists (Hetherington and Weiler 2009).
Within days, the Committee to Save New York also adopted the issue, adding legalized gambling to its list of priorities for the 2011 legislative session.
Governments have become very adept at paying the idea of reform lip service -- especially in the months since Washington adopted the issue -- but practice lags.
Ronald Reagan adopted the issue as a central one in his 1980 presidential campaign, and in 1981 he won passage of a 23percentt cut over three years.
Mr. Orban has adopted the issue of the Hungarian minorities in Romania, Slovakia and Serbia, and even pushed through legislation (later watered down) that accorded them the same rights as Hungarian citizens.
In 2011, Representative Dwight Bullard, now a state Senator, adopted the issue as his own and is currently on a crusade to help it move along.
Ricken Patel, a Canadian activist, has built up a progressive campaigning group called Avaaz from nothing to 7m members in only four years, and on a trivial budget, by exploiting the power of the web.Avaaz's dynamism is born of internal democracy: it adopts the issues its members tell it to adopt, from the humane (close Guantánamo) to the Luddite (ban genetically modified crops).
The most valuable information a user has is his or her identity (that's why the big guys are so eagerly adopting the issuing side of OpenID so you log in with, say, your Yahoo account on other sites), as well as their friend list (valuable, plus users hate to keep redoing it all over the Internet) and other information.
