"We found that more and more elements were added to the show, and we felt that they might be walking away from the original intention -- grass-roots party for grass roots, " says Dong Xianhui, who runs Tencent's news page.
The wild-card party of Beppe Grillo, the grass-roots Five-Star Movement, will also not enter into an alliance.
Everyone agrees that the grass-roots insurrection against the Republican Party's official candidate means something significant, but exactly what it means depends on who's asked.
Whether we're tackling the Green agenda and leading the world on that, or whether we're looking at our - rebalancing our foreign policy: I want to see new policies debated throughout the Party, the grass-roots listened to, and that's why as a Deputy Leader candidate I'm gathering more support, it's quite clear that this is going to be a very, very close race.
The country still lacks a centre-left, social-democratic party, and the most charismatic alternative candidate was running for a small centrist party with little grass-roots organisation.
Mr Harrison's selection, ahead of sitting Welsh MEPs, provoked a grass-roots revolt that galvanised ministers and party officials into action.
Mr Aso, more hawkish than Mr Fukuda, is congenial and fairly popular, having worked the party's grass-roots organisations.
But this is not the first time that the bosses have been unable to get their way with the party's grass-roots members.
Members of the Tea Party Express, a leading arm of the grass-roots movement, have traversed the state by bus in support of Cruz.
Politically inclined grass-roots activism on both the right and left is alive and well on Meetup in the thriving number of tea party and Occupy Wall Street groups using the site.
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