I've been mulling how a technology could be used to leverage generalized citizen support in terms of time and money into actual political change. It seems like

I've been mulling how a technology could be used to leverage generalized citizen support in terms of time and money into actual political change. It seems like broad uproar often dissipates without any real change. e.g. protests try to concentrate media attention, but that's really difficult and nothing really happens legislatively until some huge threshold of participation has been reached. The technology to really focus the agitation might be a website that collects and displays key contextual data vs data of citizen promises of campaign money, voting intent, and/or time resources (for or against an issue). The key contextual data would be something along the lines of summaries of issues & legislation, showings of each congressional position & vote history (is the rep generally for, against, undeclared vs an issue), key leverage positions (do they sit on comittees, could they be a swing vote between decided congress members?). It's one thing to see general media coverage of some issue, and get a handful of calls/emails etc, but to see concrete votes and money stacking up on an issue that would be pledged to go into play in the next campaign - that seems like better leverage than protests and letter campaigns. It would be moving the Kickstarter model into a PAC framework.