The Myth Of Blog Campaign Power?

National Journal by Danny | May. 4, 2007 (Opinion)

Every four years since the information age began and presidential campaigns started toying with the Internet, technology evangelists have predicted that this cycle -- 1996, 2000, 2004 -- will finally be the one where the Web makes the difference.

The 2008 campaign is no different. Book after book, article after article and now blog post after blog post have been written on the revolution to come. But will it ever come?

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business, Media
Topics: Presidential Election 2008, Blogs
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - May 5, 2007 - 1:57 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Kaizar Campwala (review), James Kenefick (review), Leslie Griffith (review), Aldon Hynes (review)
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Aldon Hynes
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 by Aldon Hynes - Oct. 1, 2008

The brief article rightly points out significant problems with an Op-Ed in the Washington Times, but fails to provide much for context, new information, or much of anything else making it worth reading.

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James Kenefick
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 by James Kenefick - Oct. 1, 2008
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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008
Kaizar posted this story.
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Leslie Griffith
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 by Leslie Griffith - Oct. 1, 2008

The problem I have with this story is that it starts from the premise of blog failures in defeating certain candidates rather than on the successes of supporting/electing candidates.

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