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6.6    Talk Politics

Last but not least, you can support your party just by communicating, either talking to your neighbors, writing letters to the editor or opinion articles in your local newspaper, or e-mailing friends. With the explosion of electronic media there are numerous, additional channels through which your voice can be heard. You can join electronic chat-rooms, post messages on electronic bulletin boards, or communicate via Internet Messaging (IM).

If you're more ambitious, you and your like-minded local party members could even set up a Web site at relatively low cost to gather resources and exchange ideas regarding the issues and politics of the day. Such sites are becoming much more common as people with political interests take advantage of cheap or even free Web hosting services and weblog ("blog") software.

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