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On the left, a new Twitter favorite

The political conversation on Twitter may be populated primarily by a Washington-based politico-media elite, but the Twitter meritocracy endures as well.

A man from Ann Arbor, Michigan, who goes by the name Pete Nicely and the Facebook and Twitter handle LOLGOP, is social media's latest political satire sensation. In the last three months, his frequent tweets on GOP perfidy have taken his Twitter following from 7,000 to 20,000-not bad for a man without a public face.

Nicely, unquestionably left-of-center, told a2politico.com this summer he feels "a need to balance the smug cynicism from the right."

"I think by acting like a left-wing Rush Limbaugh, I'm begging the right to grow the f*** up and listen to some adults," he said in the interview. "My dream is to be the Grover Norquist of the left. He grabs every Republican, male or female, by the balls and makes them pledge to never balance… I mean, never raise taxes."