Politico and Compete.com analyzed how political interested individuals used the Internet for political information:
The study, performed for Politico, is simply a snapshot of online activity; it followed only those readers projected to have visited an official candidate website at least once in September.
But the results reveal interesting online habits among the politically attuned. A significant […]

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Allen Fuller at TechRepublican notes a couple recent Conservative Web 2.0 developments, including RedStormPAC:
Tomorrow, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will host a series of seminars dubbed Solutions Day. While the actual events will take place in Atlanta, Gingrich and his organization have pulled together an impressive network of companion events across the country. […]

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Can an online presence for a small campaign make a difference?  If the answer is “yes” then Ron Paul’s 2008 bid for presidency may be the best how-to manual for Republicans seeking ways to make headway online.
True, the New American isn’t the most objective source (it is run by the John Birch Society after all).  Still, this article […]

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Sign up if you haven’t already! 
If your campaign (or you) don’t have a Facebook group set up, it might be a good idea to familiarize yourself with one of the most versatile social networking tools on the web.  This is an excellent way to keep Facebook users (read: potential volunteers) notified on future events and […]

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Dean Barnett at The Weekly Standard looks at the netroots movement of the left and talks about the lack of one on the right:
Some people on the right fear that the left as developed an insurmountable advantage in harnessing the power of the Internet. While the Daily Kos, YearlyKos, and other bastions of online liberalism […]

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Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson has finally entered the race, and done so through YouTube:

Compare this with Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s announcements, and you can make some subtle comparisons:

The first thing I noticed was the style… Thompson standing, the others sitting. The second was Hillary’s camera movements… the camera was not static, the film […]

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That’s right… all your worst fears have come true… blogs really do count as media. That means blogs are not extensions of campaigns in the eyes of the Federal Election Commission. Rather, they are independent media sites of their own accord, and protected as such.
What does this mean for you as a blogger? Well… nothing […]

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