Posted on 11/5/2007 2:05:00 PM by Justin Etheredge
I am by no means starting any kind of political debate on this blog, and I do not officially support any single candidate over any other one. What I do want to discuss is the rising power of the internet in terms of the U.S. elections that are coming next year.
By this point, most people who use the internet regularly have heard of Ron Paul. Like him or not, stories about him are all over the internet from Digg to Newsvine and videos of him are plastered all over You Tube. And so far he has had a fairly large outpouring of financial support, especially considering his low numbers in most of the national polls (not that these are all that accurate). There has been controversy surrounding his campaign recently when Ars Technica ran a story about a huge number of campaign e-mails coming from spambots. But so far, the internet has only empowered Ron Paul and his supporters, allowing him to raise almost 3 million dollars this quarter, as of then end of October. Continue reading the rest of this post...