Frum's Petition Problems?

I know a bit about non-profit organizations and quite a bit more about internet petitions. A couple of points on Frum's petition to withdraw the Miers nomination:

• I'm sure Frum checked with National Review's legal counsel before putting up the petition but there could be complications. I know that NRO is a non-profit organization, but there are specific limitations to what a non-profit can do. I'm not saying the petition is illegal but it could be troublesome in my experience.
  
  
• While NRO has denied that it is an official NR petition, the petition is hosted on the FRUM sub-domain on NationalReview.com. Obviously, there is a database that NRO owns and NRO owns, manages and pays for the website.
  


• Aside from the legal questions, the Frum petition is getting a pretty thin response in my estimation. Frum indicates that he has nearly 5,000 sign ups on the petition. Frankly, I expected a lot more. The Corner does not publicize their page views or unique visitors but I can surmise a rough estimate. I know that when the Corner has linked to my blog in the past, I invariably get thousands of click throughs and unique visitors (probably around 3,000+). If I had to guess I would say The Corner has at least 40,000 unique visitors a day. (I base this on the amount of click throughs I get when the Daily Dish or Volokh link to me - slightly more than The Corner). Given that Frum's petition has gotten a lot of blog press I think the low amount of petition indicates that most people are in a "wait and see mode.

UPDATE: I could be wrong on the NRO non-profit status. In fact, I could be very wrong. I guess there are so many NR "fundraisers" I sometimes mistake it for a non-profit... apologies.