The Stop Blair campaign was successful and had some media coverage, but knowing how to work the media better would have made the petition more widely known.

Over at Daily Kos, kos' company is funding polls to both find out how the electorate sits, but also to drive, in part, a narrative. Polling, of course, takes money to do, but perhaps ET could do something again to drive a narrative again.

Maybe a series of white papers on the future direction of the EU post-Lisbon? Perhaps focusing on a energy, defense, and economy. Just a thought.