Mud In The Digital Age - Imagine: One disgruntled, tech-savvy voter breaks into a presidential candidate's website and plays a dirty trick, destroying a campaign. Impossible? Inevitable. - The Boston Globe

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"On Tuesday, March 27, about nine months before anyone would cast a vote in anger in the 2008 presidential campaign, there was some surprisingly straight talk on the MySpace page of one John McCain, who, according to that very same page, is a 70-year-old man from Phoenix, Arizona. Beneath his picture, there was a message to the people who were supporting his bid to become president of the United States.

“Dear Supporters,” it read. “Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage – particularly marriage between passionate females.”

Tiny shock waves radiated. McCain heretofore had been an opponent of gay marriage. (In truth, it must be said that McCain may well have been consistently in favor of passionate females. The man was a sailor, after all.) It shook things up for the better part of the morning, a lifetime now in any campaign. However, as the day went along, it became clear that McCain’s position had not shifted at all. It had been shifted for him, from outside his campaign, in an instant, and for the oldest and most honored of political motives.

Revenge."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/06/17/mud_in_the_digital_age/

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