Ron Paul: Will his Internet Following Show up at the Polls?
February 5, 2008 | 11:53 am | by t-blender |Rate It:
newsweek.com: Congressman Ron Paul has said his personal computer is his favorite gadget, and if his campaign is any indication, he wasn’t kidding. More than any other candidate, the 72-year-old Republican with the staunch libertarian ideals has used blogs, social networking sites and online videos to disseminate his message to an unconventional—and fiercely loyal—audience. His candidacy demonstrates both the power and the limitations of Internet politics. In online text voting after debates, Paul routinely “wins,” and in the last three months of 2007 his online fund-raising brought in a startling $19.5 million. But for all his Web appeal, he has yet to win more than 19 percent of the vote in any primary or caucus. In an e-mail interview with NEWSWEEK’s Katie Paul (no relation), Ron Paul talked about how to capitalize on the e-support that surprised even his own team.
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