All election addicts are casting their eyes to what is happening in other countries & especially over in Australia and in the States. The US political teams lead the way on the integration (and spend power) of web resources & but as this article points out, much of the firepower is pointed at Hilliary Clinton:
“Remember the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’ that Hillary Clinton talked about in the late ’90s? Well, it’s the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’ gone online — and then some,” said Peter Leyden of the New Politics Institute, a liberal think tank that helps Democrats take advantage of the Internet. “What the Web does so well is it picks up the early warning signals, the first glimmers of a movement. Think of the online world as kind of a more visceral connection to the zeitgeist.”
If Clinton and Giuliani end up facing each other next November in the general election, “it will be like World War III on the Web,” predicts Gregg Birnbaum, political editor of the New York Post and founder of JustHillary.com, an online aggregator of stories about the New York senator. “There’s an enormous amount of historical material out there on both of them, and the virtual hand-to-hand combat would be something like we’ve never seen before,” Birnbaum said. “All the videos, all the blogging — all the Web allows.”
(Washington Post, 8 Nov 2007)
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