Click The Vote

Chris Lilik is a one-man political action committee. Powered by a high-speed computer he assembled himself, the 24-year-old law student at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University is working madly to build grassroots support for the Senate candidacy of Representative Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.). Lilik regularly blasts e-mails to 500 conservative allies on his mailing list, mobilizing them to unseat four-term moderate Arlen Specter for the Republican nomination.

The law student and his friends have led more than 800 people to sign up online for the latest rage in political get-togethers, known as Meetups. That's more Meetup volunteers than any non-Presidential candidate in the entire country. "It's all because of that law student in Pittsburgh," says Toomey's press secretary, Joe Sterns. "We had almost nothing to do with it."