"Fired up, ready to go -- that was the campaign slogan," says a beaming Ernest E. Johnson on a recent Saturday. A real estate agent and longtime Washington activist, the 60-year-old worked the streets and the Internet, networking and organizing to make sure Barack Obama got elected president. "Well, people are still fired up and [...]
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e-Hail to the Chief
Obama Won With Web's Help. Now, How to Govern Using That Community?
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Politics Is No Longer Local. It’s Viral.
Around this time last year, I was driving through the snow-covered flatlands of the Hawkeye State, headed to a bowling alley where a dozen college students from the University of Northern Iowa were holding court at lanes 27 and 28. All members of a group called UNI Students for Barack Obama, they were dressed from [...]
Republicans Seek to Fix Short-Sitedness
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, [...]
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 [...]
MoveOn Grows Up
What Started Online in '98 Has Transformed Liberal Politicking
REPORTING FROM NEW YORK -- Five days after Sen. John McCain named Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, Quinn Latimer and co-worker Lyra Kilston sent an e-mail to 40 female friends and invited them to outline the reasons they were upset with his choice. It elicited such a huge response -- from friends [...]
