As you can tell, the site is up and running smoothly. The Ticker's are filling up quick with Republican activism and energy... a great sign for the Slatecard Revolution.

Fortunately, our launch has not gone unnoticed in the conservative sphere and MSM.

The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder broke the news about the launch this morning:

Beginning today, Republicans will have a neat new way to help their favorite candidate online -- a website that mixes activism and voyeurism.

Slatecard.com fills a real need: an online donation and information aggregation site for Republicans, modeled off ACT Blue, a net-based bundling PAC founded in 2004 for Democrats.

 

Redstate's Adam C. had this to say on the frontpage:

Slatecard.com is now live. It is a Republican answer to ActBlue, which allows individuals to select from a full list of all Rs running for national office. You can then title your slate and get a direct link to it. This allows you to pick your favorite challengers and incumbents and solicit small donations for all of them. It empowers the individual rather than a top-down list selected by the site itself as RightRoots did last year (with 20 site selected candidates).

For example, I have created a "Close Senate Race" slate here. If you would like to donate to the close senate races, that link provides you a quick opportunity to do so. I will be changing my signature to direct people there.

I encourages RSers to create their own slates based on whatever issues are most important to them. Then use RS, other blogs, and social networking sites to direct your friends and fellow politicos to your slate of candidates. This is a big step for the online GOP. Congrats to Slatecard for making it happen.

 

TechPresident's Micah Sifry picked up on Ambinder's post in their essential Daily Digest: 

* Marc Ambinder's got the scoop on the launch of Slatecard, the latest Republican response to the Democratic fundraising juggernaut ActBlue. The site's founders are techPresident contributor and GOP online whirlwind David All, and web developer Sendhil Panchadsaram. At first glance, the site's most interesting and innovative elements are a ticker that shows who is fundraising for whom, who has updated their site, and so on, and badges that users can affix to candidates to identify what issue they support them on. Nice work David and Sendhil!

 

National Review Online's Jim Geraghty said: 

Slatecard - The Righty Answer To ActBlue?

TechRepublican's David All unveiled Slatecard.com this morning, the Republican answer to ActBlue.

 

And I'd be remiss not to mention that some of the folks on the Left have also taken notice. A tipster passes along this email which was sent to a progressive emai l list of online activists (name and header removed). The email cites Ambinder's post as a reference:

Slatecard.com went online today. It's an online donation and information aggregation site for Republicans, modeled off ACT Blue.
 
Like ACT Blue, Slatecard.com is organized as a political action committee under federal election law. It is currently limited to federal candidates only, but plans to be active at the state and local levels soon.
 
Mitt Romney's campaign, the GOP, and others have been using similar social networking & online bundling tools for some time now. Is this too little too late? Does the GOP have a need for this tool at all? Anyone scared?

I am surprised, upon checking on ActBlue, that their currently busiest recipient of contributions (meaning most activity lately) is DraftGore.com, which has 2,444 supporters and $103,227 raised so far.

John Edwards, for comparison, has 51,948 supporters and $4,220,632 raised so far.

This buzz is a good start, but we're just getting started. We'll keep plugging.