Other conservatives have attacked these views, and perhaps the Frums and Gingriches are simply out of touch with the grass roots of their party.
His speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is notable as many of the grass-roots activists were sceptical of his conservative credentials in the run-up to the presidential election.
The regionalisation of politics in Russia is not just a sign of grass-roots activism, says Mr Dmitriev, but a symptom of people's lack of trust in politicians and parties at the federal level.
After a visit to an oil spill in 1969, he came up with the idea of involving students in a nationwide grass-roots day of environmental awareness.
Within the grass roots of the sport there was a buzz created by Button and his apparently effortless success.
The tournament was supposed to reverse a sharp decline in West Indian cricket, which had devastated the grass roots of the sport within the region.
The map also clearly illustrates the power of grass roots support.
Clune like to say that he became convinced of the vast potential of grass roots networking after meeting and taking for granted a 70 year old Florida Irish-American woman who turned out to be a scion of a Coco Cola founder.
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And Robert Woollard, chairman of the Conservative Grass Roots organisation, suggested Mr Cameron needed to rein in some of his colleagues in No 10 who were "wet behind the ears" and "needed to get out more".
Members of the Tea Party Express, a leading arm of the grass-roots movement, have traversed the state by bus in support of Cruz.
A. in its campaign is carrying its case to the people of America in a grass roots crusade which we hope, with your help, and the help of tens of thousands of others, will reach every corner of this country.
Americans for Tax Reform is one of the most powerful grass-roots organisations in the Republican coalition, a combination of nerve-centre and morale-booster.
We need grass roots vigilance of strokes because that's where the diagnosis will be made.
"The whole campaign has had that kind of grass-roots element to it, " Mr. Myers said.
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With Windows CE, " says Michalski, "I don't see a lot of grass-roots software or cool new stuff.
Almost three decades later, he is chairman of Minnesotans for a Single Chamber and has gathered an impressive network of grass-roots supporters.
Howard Dean and Wesley Clark both made some efforts to build up a network of grass-roots volunteers in Missouri, partially through the internet.
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So he's now in a much better position that he would have been had he not done that grass roots organizing of caucus states.
Noting that Sichuan's farmers were raising 70 million pigs a year on a diet largely of grass, roots and garbage, the brothers saw an opportunity.
But in recent years, they have been less effective at developing the same level of grass-roots energy as earlier movements, including their own in the 1970s.
Descriptions of these grass roots endeavors are posted on the Pepsi Refresh Project website, where the public votes on their favorites in a series of prize and project categories.
As outside-the-establishment movements like the tea party, Occupy Wall Street and Ron Paul followers are showing, the two-party system isn't big enough to absorb the concerns and passions of hundreds of thousands of grass-roots activists.
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Young Democrats at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campaigned to get out the vote and listened to former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis speak on the importance of grass-roots politics.
Gore repeatedly denied he has any plans to run again, but this week a group of grass-roots Democrats calling themselves "Draft Gore" took out a full-page ad in The New York Times in a bid to change his mind.
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The spread of the web had been amazing because it had happened not by a management decision or United Nations decree, but "through the grass roots efforts of thousands of people of all different sorts, collaborating - across the internet - just because they shared that same twinkle in the eye, " he said.
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson were concerned about the huge risks that pushing for civil rights posed for the Democrats' stronghold in the South -- still the electoral base of the party back then -- both were finally moved to take action because of the valiant efforts of grass-roots activists who placed pressure on them and on uncommitted legislators.
"When you create a grass-roots movement of this scale, you're bound to get one person who takes exception to your opinions, " Mr. Garone says.
Microsoft has also formed the so-called Freedom to Innovate network, a "nonpartisan, grass-roots network of citizens and businesses" that happens to reside on the company's website.
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He said the aim of the project is to eventually have Swahili language software operating on thousands of computers at grass roots levels, including primary schools and universities.
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