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David All at TechRepublican.com takes a look at Fred Thompson's online team and pronounces it to be strong.

Of note, Thompson has tapped fellow TechPresident contributor, Mike Turk, as his "chief architect," heading up the team and wrangling the consultants. I don't really understand the title, but I guess it sounds stronger and more senior than "online political director," which lends well to the theory that Thompson is going to have a very strong Internet presence.

I suspected Turk was making a go at the position with Thompson a while ago after reading these two posts on his blog:

The case for Fred Thompson

Why Fred Thompson will win if he runs

Turk was a strong choice for Thompson, and I'm not just saying that because he's really one of the only qualified Republicans left in the room. Turk's innovative online efforts on the Bush-Cheney 2004 team were far ahead of the Kerry-Edwards ticket and helped capture the grassroots energy which was pumping strong for Bush. Recently, Turk has taken off the gloves with regard to how the GOP is doing online. He's pissed off quite a few people in the establishment, but his point has hit its mark for a candidate like Thompson looking for something better, different.

Fred's grassroots energy is very real, like a million lightning bugs flying throughout America, distributed. If Turk can get all of that light in the bottle, he'll have enough power to light the room and push through the cluttered primary race which has very few people excited.

All also has some thoughts about other people on Thompson's online team, including Jon Henke, who left his position as New Media Director for the Senate Republican Caucus to work for New Media Strategies and the Thompson campaign.

Fred's online efforts are barely up and running, but they've already netted Thompson a big score in the fundraising and grassroots arenas...

Ryan Sager reports that Thompson's website, ImWithFred.com, registered 29,463 supporter and  $352,323.00 in donations from 3,360 contributors in its first 48 hours online "with no paid advertising, or pre-oorganized push by donor operation"

If you do the math on the donations, you realize that comes to just under $105 per contributor while the federal maximum limit is $2,300.