Politicians Brave the Internet - With Help
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LOL:) Look who&#039;s podcasting! No, it&#039;s not your teenager. It&#039;s your senator.
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THE Internet has changed the way political campaigns are run.   In 2004, Howard Dean showed that the Internet can be a great way to connect directly with voters and target grass-roots fundraising.
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If you're not ready to feverishly debate Iraq or the deficit in this bitterly divisive election year, you can always surf the Web, where politics is frequently nothing but a big joke. President Bush and challenger John Kerry are spoofed as utter fools on the Internet daily, usually in good fun.
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Voters are by now accustomed to seeing political leaders impertinently pop up on the social networking side of cyberspace. Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois has significant Facebook and MySpace profiles; former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who is also seeking the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, recently debuted a page on the Ã¢ÂÂavatarÃ¢ÂÂ social networking site Second Life.
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By Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 11--If you want to run for office with a human touch, try using a little technology.   At his gubernatorial campaign Web site, Republican challenger Dick DeVos regularly posts video logs that let him talk directly to online visitors.
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The Internet serves more as a town hall in the United States than an echo chamber as users are more likely to be exposed to a wide range of political views, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
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Oct. 27, 2004 - Political junkies of all stripes have gotten much of their news and political commentary during this year&#39;s campaign from online sources, and a new survey finds the Internet is contributing to a wider awareness of political views.
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Jerry Archer asks whether Congress has the stomach to tackle big problems looming in cyberspace.
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Online petitions could be used to decide issues to be debated in Parliament, David Cameron suggests.
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Social networking sites have changed the game for political candidates.
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The governing Labour Party is at it, as are the opposition Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Political blogging, podcasting and online video is taking off in Britain as politicians look to widen the net for new -- and importantly younger -- voters.
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When it comes to power games, some in Hollywood are beginning to learn a basic lesson of digital politics: the Internet plays rough.
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It was inevitable. In the Internet age, interest groups seeking influence in Washington are joining presidential candidates in discovering a new electronic tool to press their agenda: YouTube.
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A British government minister may have thought he was keeping up with modern trends when he put a draft policy on the Internet, but was soon left red-faced when hundreds of pranksters defaced it.
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Search engines have not eclipsed newspapers and television as the primary source of political information yet. But that day is not far off.
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In the evolution of political campaigns, from whistle-stop trains to TV sound bites and celebrity pitches, why shouldnt i-campaigning come next? Just so were clear, thats i as in Internet based, not the I many politicians seem to put ahead of the people.
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As the high-octane US election campaigns continue, two seventy-somethings, Ron Paul and Mike Gravel's lively, iconoclastic stances have mobilized support among young people on the Internet.