As you may know, over at my group blog, TechRepublican, I've been running a series on the "New Guards."

As part of my third post in the series, I included the following item on Slatecard that you may find interesting:

Slatecard.com, a utility to support and enhance Republican activism which we launched in October 2007 is indeed one sign of progress for our side and its results speak for themselves. It has already raised more than $370K for Republican candidates and committees, has helped raise money for House Special Election races that few care about, and 48 candidates are using Slatecard exclusively to process their donations online.

To put that into perspective, the Left's ActBlue pulled in around $791K in its first election cycle (2004) and we're on track to beat that total. Further, both ActBlue.com and Slatecard.com share a Google pagerank of 6/10 -- an independent view of the "importance" of the website.

And about the buzz for Slatecard, feel free to check out the coverage of Slatecard in my del.icio.us account.

But, of course, we're not resting on our laurels. With the expected launch of Slatecard version 2 in the spring of 2009, we intend to continue to build on that success, to be an even bigger, better utility for our candidates and community in the 2009 and 2010 Election cycles.