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Does all of this impact the loosening of central campaign controls?
Question to the MPs. Jo Swinson feels like candidates will still follow party lines and follow guidance. Loosening is much more likely in between elections, not during them. LibDems just launched Act as a grassroots tool; it is not centrally controlled and events are all citizen-generated.
Another interesting comment from the audience
From a member of the conservative web team...that it's still the non sexy tools, like e-mail and web site content, that make the difference most with people likely to vote.
Tom Harris raises the rising power of social media mums
The young are online but do not vote. But mums do...in force. This was one of the real power strategies of the Obama campaign, outreach to micro-communities on topics that concern them.

Iain Dale is speaking about the attractiveness of the bloggers as insta-pundits (name mine, with apologies to Glenn Reynolds)
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