"The electrifying redemption of America's revolutionary declaration that all human beings are created equal would not have been possible without the additional empowerment of individuals to use knowledge as a source of power that has come with the Internet,"
Those were the words of Al Gore as reported by the FT this morning and as if we didn't know it,the 2008 election has become a defining moment in the relationship of the Internet and politics
It also reports the words of Joe Trippi who says that
Mr Obama had won every caucus state that mattered by moving and organising thousands of people, through methods including e-mail lobbying and volunteer recruitment via the web. This had given him his decisive lead over Mrs Clinton.
If we do go the polls next year as some of the papers are speculating,will the web have the same influence,probably not?
1 comment:
Well, people did seem disappointed when he stopped tweeting. It was really a major change from the past. (I wrote a blog post about this)
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