[LINK] the web and politics

Jan Whitaker jwhit at janwhitaker.com
Mon May 21 17:41:57 AEST 2007


The US is also in the beginning stages of an election (if you haven't heard).

This is an interesting example of how conservative politics just 
don't get it when it comes to online communication strategies. Note 
the last sentence:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/20/AR2007052001408.html?hpid=topnews
There are other measures as well. No Republican comes close to 
matching the popularity of another Democratic candidate, Sen. Barack 
Obama of Illinois, on YouTube, MySpace and Facebook, the 
social-networking triumvirate. The Democrats are ahead in the online 
money race. The top three Democrats, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, 
Obama and Edwards, amassed more than $14 million over the Internet in 
the first three months of 2007; in contrast, the top three 
Republicans, Giuliani, McCain and Romney, collected less than half of 
that, $6 million. Furthermore, ABC PAC, the conservative fundraising 
site, has raised $385 so far for Republican presidential hopefuls; 
Act Blue, its liberal counterpart, has collected about $3 million for 
Edwards alone.


Jan Whitaker
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