Well, he is actually running and running on-line. Some of the coverage of on-line efforts miss the importance of on the ground efforts to reach key constituencies that don’t use the internet regularly, but on-line activism helps reach people who often aren’t typical advocacy group members, but are politically active.
Hull is announcing the start of meet-ups which is a good idea and helps connect potential on the ground workers when you can’t rely upon the regular party workers. Interestingly, The Common Space is a venue for the Metro East region–still working out the kinks given it wouldn’t generally be convenient for Metro Easters, but I highly recommend it to others. Hull visited Belleville already and I missed it do to weather, but the tour seems to be a positive way to build name recognition while also doing so on the internet and on television.
And did he go to Lucca in Bloomington? Hell yes–go down to the pic next to Mike Kelleher (not a Senate candidate), former Congressional and Lieutenant Governor Candidate and next to that is a pic of the Lucca Grill.
The key to a Hull campaign is to build energy as an insurgent. A key way to do that is to appeal to people outside the general party framework and while such campaigns using the internet are relatively new, this is a good start for a statewide campaign. The other web sites are largely useless, though Obama has some grassroots efforts to start meetups for him.