Check this out. The Ron Paul campaign has decided to open up their data, and now developers like this guy are using that data to make applications.

Who needs campaign money when you have a passionate user base that does everything for you?

Here's the point: eventually, someone's going to figure out a way to take the preceding sentence and replace the word "campaign" with "startup." And that, like the Ron Paul 2008 campaign, will be downright revolutionary.