Effectiveness of internet in modern campaign

[lealdragon]

<p>Looks like the rules have changed. No longer are we bound by only those candidates fed to us by the mainstream media. Thanks to the internet, the power is being returned to the people. Grassroots efforts have much more power. 3rd party candidates may actually have a chance at winning. The landscape of politics is changing!</p>

<p>What’s interesting, as discussed in the following article, is the response to this phenomenon - extreme leftists and neocons alike joining forces in their attempts to smear Ron Paul!</p>

<p>from [Why</a> Are They So Afraid of Ron Paul?- by Justin Raimondo](<a href=“http://www.antiwar.com/justin/jr111407b.html]Why”>Why Are They So Afraid of Ron Paul?- by Justin Raimondo)</p>

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Why Are They So
Afraid of Ron Paul?
Neocons and sectarian leftists unite to smear the antiwar Republican
by Justin Raimondo</p>

<p>As I predicted last month, the only consistently antiwar candidate on the Republican side of the aisle is breaking through – but in a spectacular manner that I certainly did not foresee. Suddenly, Paul is everywhere, from the Sunday morning talk shows to the length and breadth of the blogosphere. His amazing $4.2 million-in-one-day fundraising feat has entered the annals of presidential politics as the long-promised fulfillment of Internet-based political fundraising. And the myth that it’s all online and not translatable into real people is belied by his recent 5,000-strong Philadelphia rally and similar events in Iowa and elsewhere. Paul has become the equivalent of a rock star among the young, and his appeal goes way beyond the usual libertarian crowd: liberals and conservatives, all races and cultural types, from home-schooling Christians to San Francisco pagans and everything in between. On the Internet, and in the streets, the Ron Paul Revolution, as his followers have dubbed their movement, is taking off.

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