The Internet's effect on campaigning and elections 17 Articles

by Susan Payton

Political marketing, meet marketing 2.0. Everyone markets their brand, including Presidential candidates. Whereas in the past, candidates have relied heavily upon volunteers to create a grassroots movement through door-...read more

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by Madison

Immediate Access ! That is the name of the game in any marketing strategy. Since most people check their E-mail anywhere from 1 to 100 times a day, using the Internet to reach out to potential voters is brilliant. Also,...read more

by Lou Rountree

The Internet effect on political campaigning and elections is capable of determining the winner. This is accomplished by empowering many individual and group Internet members to promote their political agendas by using in...read more

by Barton Gersten

It is becoming clear that with each passing election that the power of the Internet on campaigning and elections only grows exponentially. What 2008 U.S. presidential candidate does not have a website? BarackObama.co...read more

by Can Tran

For most of the people who inhabit this green earth, the internet is pretty much our life blood of information. Whether we're downloading music, playing computer games, reading the news, watching the news, chatting, and w...read more

by Mona Gallagher

Political information and latest happenings in the 2008 Presidential campaign stream to our computers daily by way of the Internet. In fact, how many people still read newspapers, when you can find the up to the minute inf...read more

by Bryan Siemon

Imagine the elections in the United States before radio, television, and the Internet. Before all the wonderful technology and mass communications politicians would have to travel and give speeches or rely on mail, telegr...read more

by Rafael Gaitan

The American population NEEDS to be politicized. They need to learn how to choose candidates to avoid the disasters of the last two elections that have as outcome crisis for the country in all the aspects. What is the heri...read more

by Nathan Taylor

It is no surprise that the internet has begun to have a drastic effect on campaigns and elections. In recent years we have seen Howard Dean and Ron Paul, just to name a few achieve some remarkable results. The ability to ...read more

by Jen Bishop

The Internet has already been a part of the campaign of 2008 in a very distinctive way. Two Democratic front runners (Hillary Rodham-Clinton and Barack Obama) both announced their intention for run from president in 2008 t...read more

by Randa Morris

The wonders of modern technology. Today, instead of needing to search out pamphlets and fliers, or call to request information on candidates running for office, we have easy information at our fingertips, thanks to the ...read more

by Brian Wilkins

I am a candidate for the 2008 presidential race. I can spend money, I can stump my legs off, I can speak on national television, run ad campaigns and sling some mud or I can expose my campaign to the world on the Internet....read more

by David Riel

The Internet has changed the way campaigns are conducted, and has had more effect on elections that any other innovation in democracy's history. Before the Internet the voters were at the mercy of the people with the mo...read more

by Angela Anderson

Hilary Clinton's new campaign ad is hot. Hilary and Bill team up to spoof the highly controversial Sopranos Finale ending. The couple sits in a diner eating carrots while Hilary thumbs through a tabletop juke box. To ma...read more

by Travis Luther

Pump up the Volume: How Internet Killed the Radio Star This is a long one. For those of you rating, I apologize =) The masses are not in control. American society is divided into two groups; the masses and those th...read more

by William Griffith

I think the most profound effect of campaigning and elections is the unfiltered nature of the Internet. First, image can be made or destroyed via the Internet. A great example of this is the destruction of Senator Allen's ...read more

by Erinmarie

As the Internet embeds itself in our lives and minds, no one can dispute that is effects our perception. New travels at the blink of an eye. We are no longer reliant on radio speeches and occasional television appearan...read more