HuffPost Game Changers: Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Politics?

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HuffPost's Game Changers celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 10 categories who are harnessing the power of new media to reshape their fields and change the world. With your help, we've picked 10 people who are changing the game in Politics. We honor and salute them.

Now it's up to you to pick the Ultimate Politics Game Changer. Click through the slideshow below, get the lowdown on why we chose them, then VOTE. We'll reveal the Ultimate 10 in November.

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Current Status: Leading a small donor political revolution  



Changing the Game By: Creating an online portal that makes grassroots political fund-raising simple for candidates and small-dollar donors alike. Howard Dean once talked about a “$100 revolution,” when the power of ordinary people grouping together and giving small amounts would overtake the influence of vested interests and their army of lobbyists. ActBlue is helping turn this idea into a reality. Since 2004, the site has raised over $100 million on behalf of thousands of political candidates -- from Barack Obama to upstarts running for local office. The median donation is just 50 bucks. That's people-powered democracy, and a real game changer for our country's politics.  



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[caveman1313]

11:58 AM on 11/19/2009

i didn't see palin on the list.

[WindySailor]

07:48 AM on 11/19/2009

Golly, I was thinking Jonah Goldberg or Tucker Carlson. You know, someone who almost knows how to spell his own name.

[Hans Lak]

10:01 AM on 11/17/2009

Its interesting to see that the changemakers have no chance what so ever against the number one who has abused the AVAAZ community to vote for him! Shame on RICKEN! Whats the use of this anyhow?
Who cares about a ranking that is home made! its plain and simple that Avaaz can only be number one if they promote this and the others don't promote it! Avaaz should take care of serious problems not about this kind of how do you call this? SICK JOKE?

[Sean 6399]

05:54 PM on 11/15/2009

Ron Paul did more to change the political game in America over the past couple of years than all the little people on huffpuff's list did collectively.

[mamacat]

02:04 AM on 11/08/2009

How about Glenn Beck? He has been pivotally important in the creation of Fox's so-called grass roots movements, the 9/12 project and the tea party demonstrations.

[mamacat]

02:01 AM on 11/08/2009

I vote for Arianna Huffington and Rachel Maddow.

[marley22]

10:00 PM on 11/05/2009

I thought David Koresh was dead.

[mexobserver]

12:12 PM on 11/04/2009

I expected this whole gamechanging game would be all U.S.A.-centered. Well, if you MUST consider someone a huge game changer, it should be Robert (Bob) Naiman, the economist, human-rights activist and, now, NATIONAL COORDINATOR of the JUST FOREIGN POLICY organization (JFP). Just less than two years ago, the tour they organized about the Folly of Attacking Iran, with writer Stephen Kinzer as speaker along with distinguished scholars in Iranian culture and politics in a tour accross your whole country, even while King George W. Bush was making war sounds against Iran, when he hadn´t even withdrawn from Iraq, I tell you --just as Mr. Kinzer later wrote to me, they (Bob Naiman and team) very likely succeeded in avoiding an Iranian quagmire that Mr. Obama would now be struggling to get out from. SO -if your rules allow for my proposal- I STRONGLY SUPPORT MR. ROBERT NAIMAN AS GAMECHANGER #1.

[mancoff]

02:36 PM on 11/02/2009

The ultimate game changers in politics will be the american people. When they wake up, listen, educate themselves and learn what the conservative right wing really stands for. The tea baggers are totally ignorant of the totality of what the leaders who "misguide" them really stand for and what is their ultimate goal. When the people remember that government is for the people, by the people and not for the senators and congressmen who work to only to sustain power and money and put party over country. When people demand facts, not innuendo and rumors and untruths. When the people do not allow themselves to be lead by fear mongers, hate mongers and racists and refuse to listen or vote for such people, then the game will change and the people will have done it
You can listen to bias and agree with it but the premise must be based on fact and reason, not propoganda, suppositon and hate. Learn the difference and then make your choices.

[amdan]

06:06 PM on 10/30/2009

Seriously, what has changed?

Wall Street and our insolvent banks are still running the economy. Health insurances companies will still be robbing and killing Americans after the so-called healthcare reform.

So who has changed what game?

We are still in 2 wars, with no end in sight.

We are still giving welfare to banks and not healthcare to people.

We knows what works, how to put Americans to work with well paying jobs by investing in us and our infrastructure from the bottom (Our sewage systems) to the top ( Air traffic control) and everything in between, but the games stays the same, and the rich will continue to make the rules and changes the game as they see fit.

Game changers? Are you kidding me!

[NoLipService]

11:05 PM on 10/29/2009

Do not know any of those people! Should have had Matt Drudge on the list he is a huge game changer in politics

[mlaiuppa]

05:05 PM on 10/29/2009

AKMuckraker of The Mudflats almost singlehandedly saved this country from Vice President Sarah Palin.

Where is she on the list of gamechangers?

[BlueZoo]

12:14 PM on 10/23/2009

IMHO, the biggest game changer in politics has been President Obama - the Blackberry king! Nobody else has upended the political scene more than this one man!

[JohnUllmann]

08:11 PM on 10/20/2009

It must be Anthony Weiner or Alan Grayson. All the rest pale by comparison - in politics, that is.

[anothervoice]

11:42 AM on 10/18/2009

This exercise in "scoring" isn't in the interest of the HufPo audience. A more useful means of raising the awareness of these Gamechangers would be a series of reports with video interviews on who they are and their impact on our collective futures. (Especially with comment by those affected.)

The context of "scoring" devalues the efforts and importance of those who are toiling in areas equally important, but perhaps effecting fewer people or having a more subtle and nuanced degree of change.

Methinks your editorial staff spends too much time watching reality shows. This is too important to address in a snapshot, "USA Today" metric. Give us context. Drop the "Who's on Top"; it's a disservice to your readership.