At 6:50 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 6-- less than 44 hours after the GOP lost the White House and more seats in Congress -- RebuildTheParty.com went live. Founded by two young party activists, Patrick Ruffini and Mindy Finn, the site proposes to start by rebuilding the often marginalized conservative blogosphere. Its mission statement, a 3,200-word, [...]
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Politics and Social Networks: Voters Make the Connection
REPORTING FROM TOLEDO, OHIO -- Here in the battleground of all battleground states, the people in charge of this soon-to-end presidential campaign are Chris Myers and Katie Stoynoff. But Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have never heard of them. Myers, 33, is a lifelong Republican. Though he's always been wary of McCain's "Straight Talk [...]
Obama’s Wide Web
REPORTING FROM CHICAGO -- Amid the cramped, crowded cubicles inside Sen. Barack Obama's campaign headquarters here, sandals are as ubiquitous as iPods. Two young guys in shorts and T-shirts throw a football around. An electoral college map (California 55, Texas 34, etc.) is taped to the wall in the men's bathroom. A BlackBerrying staffer sneezes [...]
Something Just Clicked
An Obama Delegate's Road to Politics Began With an Online Donation
REPORTING FROM SACRAMENTO -- It all started last summer with a $10 online donation -- her very first political contribution. With another click of the mouse, 52-year-old Linnie Frank Bailey, a political neophyte, morphed into a campaign volunteer. By fall, she'd taken on the titles of "area coordinator" and "regional field organizer." And by winter, [...]
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With the Internet Comes a New Political 'Clickocracy'
We saw it coming. Just as MySpace and Facebook change the way we communicate, just as YouTube alters the way we entertain ourselves, just as eBay and iTunes modify the way we shop, the Internet is transforming the way we engage with this never-ending presidential campaign. Like it or not, we now belong to a [...]
