Obama has online edge in 2008, conference emphasises

Barack Obama's superiority in his campaign's use of the internet as a political tool in the 2008 presidential election was underlined at a new media conference in New York today in which senior Republican advisers admitted that the party had become complacent in the last four years and lost the initiative. Mindy Finn, who led internet strategy for Mitt Romney during the primary elections, said the Republicans had lost their edge over the past four years. "The right was very big on the web in 2000, 2002 and 2004, and Bush was effective at getting his message out through videos and the blogosphere. But now we've got complacent." The conference, organised by the Personal Democracy Forum, brought together chief internet strategists for several of the 2008 candidates. In addition to Romney they included the internet gurus of... [read full story]