If we had a coordinated movement the ACLU would have the ability to sort their email blast (do they even have one?) by congressional district. That way as votes came up in committee and on the floor they could contact their members in key congressional districts and ask them to contact their representatives. Likewise MoveOn and the other members of the pro-habeas corpus coalition.

The high traffic blogs would be coordinating with the local bloggers in key districts. Doing this would require knowing who they are and establishing a relationship with them. The obvious way to do this would be to divided up local bloggers by state, for example, Atrios could take Pennsylvania, Matt Stoller could take New Jersey and Maryland, Jane Hamsher could take California and Connecticut and so on. Then as key votes came up they could link to local bloggers and ask readers to go through that site. Ultimately politicians are interested in constituents, not some blogger and their community.

Of course it is difficult to do this on a shoe string budget. I am just talking about what a coordinated movement would look like if we had one.