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Tuesday, October 29, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/24/technology/circuits/24poli.html The Web on the Campaign Trail JEFFREY SELINGO In his closing statement at the end of the first presidential debate of the 1996 campaign, Senator Bob Dole included a plug for his Web site. Hundreds of thousands of Internet users flocked to the site in the hour after the debate ended, overloading the server to such an extent that the site virtually shut down. For many political analysts, that moment signaled the beginning of the Internet age in politics, much as the Kennedy-Nixon debates forever merged politics and television. In the 2000 presidential campaign, Senator John McCain used the Web to organize his insurgent campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, raising some $2.6 million online in the week after the New Hampshire primary. Since then, the Internet has become almost a required tool for candidates for federal and statewide offices around the country....
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