USA Today: Candidates set up headquarters in cyberspace

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""When the industrial revolution came, candidates learned real fast that they had to go stand at the factory gate," said Joe Trippi, a political consultant who managed the Internet-savvy Howard Dean presidential campaign four years ago. "Why? Because at 5 o'clock when that whistle blew, that's where the workers would be. You're campaigning where the community is."

Which is why you will find every presidential candidate on MySpace, a networking site which counts more than 64 million current members. Visitors to Republican Mitt Romney's page can click and play Elvis Presley's A Little Less Conversation. Republican John McCain lists 24 as his favorite TV show and Viva Zapata as his favorite movie.

Democrat Barack Obama recently became the first candidate to sign up 100,000 MySpace friends. And he has his own version of social networking called My.BarackObama.com that has allowed Virginia mothers Ruthi David and Kulia Petzoldt to become active in politics for the first time."

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2007-04-19-cyberspace-campaigns_N.htm?csp=34

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