Eventful demands

While each campaign is trying to galvanize its support base, something new is happening online: grassroots supporters of the candidates are using a new tool from Eventful.com, an events database, to request, or "demand" in Eventful's parlance, that the candidate come to their city. So far, only Ron Paul and John Edwards have directly responded to this bottom-up aggregation of voter attention, but several have adopted their Eventful pages. Could this be the first sign of "candidate-relationship management" from below? These graphs chart the total number of demands expressed for each candidate so far.

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