Allow this figure to sink in for a moment; Obama has 13 million email addresses of supporters.More than 3 million of those people gave money to his campaign. That is a well of support he can draw from for a variety of uses - a tactic he is already taking advantage of as he is continuing to send out appeals to his email list for funds.Those 13 million names represent about 10% of the electorate that went to the polls on election day. And it is a list that is only going to grow over the next 4 years. What can President Obama do with that list? He can swamp Congress with emails, phone calls, and letters requesting members to support him on any issue he chooses. It may, as this article in Bloomberg points out, change the entire political landscape:``It could be life-changing for American politics,'' said conservative activist Richard Viguerie, a pioneer in using direct mail for political causes. ``It allows Obama to be independent of everybody.'' Obama's collection of e-mail addresses...(Read Full Post)