http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/231/daily_digest_4_9_07 Comments for "Daily Digest: 4/9/07" en http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/231/daily_digest_4_9_07 <p><strong>The Web on the Candidates</strong><br /> <a href="http://www.joinrudy2008.com">Rudy Giuliani</a> advisor <strong>Patrick Ruffini</strong> looks at theories that the <a href="http://www.patrickruffini.com/2007/04/08/do-democrats-own-the-internet/">Democrats own the internet</a> and decides it isn&#8217;t true. &#8220;The basic gist of the argument is that because Democrats embrace open systems online (blog comments, user generated content), they’re more successful and raise more money. This totally gets it backwards, I think.&#8221;&nbsp; Ruffini thinks that the &#8220;top-down&#8221; style of generating massive email lists is still the way candidates are raising large amounts of money.&nbsp; Supporters are still &#8220;far more likely to interface with the campaign from a top-down email sent from headquarters than they are by having a peer-to-peer dialogue with the campaign,&#8221; he writes.&nbsp; In this regard, the Repubicans are competing with the Democrats.&nbsp; &#8220;The lesson is that Web traffic (and donations) follows media coverage and the political environment, and Republicans more than held their own in a difficult year.&#8221;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/4/8/1243/35299">Matt Stoller</a> has a different explanation: &#8220;The Democratic Party is &#8216;ahead&#8217; not in the sense that its masters have learned the new tools, but because the party is becoming much more open and aligned around a left-wing ideology that is ascendant in America,&#8221; and the Republicans have yet to catch up to this shift.</p> <p><a href="http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/231/daily_digest_4_9_07">read more</a></p> http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/231/daily_digest_4_9_07#comment Dennis Kucinich Duncan Hunter John Edwards Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:30:37 -0400 Joshua Levy 231 at http://www.techpresident.com