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It's hard to imagine, but Obama ran as a populist outsider, buoyed to office by a grassroots organizing campaign that used an incredibly innovative online tool called MyBarackObama.com, which directly connected rank-and-file supporters so they could self-organize, creating an unstoppable force.

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