Online, GOP Is Playing Catch-Up

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Democrats Have Big Edge on Web


When David All, a former Republican congressional aide, launched a blog recently that he hopes will spur his fellow Republicans to bridge the digital divide, he did his best to sound upbeat. "Today our Revolution begins," he wrote. "Tomorrow we fight."

But implicit in his cheerleading was the acknowledgment that there is a widening gap between Democrats and Republicans on the Internet, and that his party will have to scramble to catch up. "For the most part Republicans are stuck in Internet circa 2000," he said in an interview.

Another Republican -- Michael Turk, who was in charge of Internet strategy for President Bush's 2004 campaign -- puts the problem his party faces more bluntly: "We're losing the Web right now."

The most recent figures from Nielsen/NetRatings provide one measure of the gap. Looking at the Web sites of presidential candidates from the two parties, it found that former senator John Edwards's site had about 690,000 unique visitors in March, when the Democrat's wife, Elizabeth, announced that she had a recurrence of cancer, more than the combined number of visitors to the sites of the three leading GOP contenders, Rudolph W. Giuliani (297,000), Sen. John McCain (258,000) and Mitt Romney (76,000).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/20/AR2007052001408.html?hpid=topnews

[Mind_your_head]

1. Well that's what happens when the lazy republics have their

private secretaries d/l, print their e-mail for them.

Also, reading serious discussion on the internet is too 'threatening' to them, b/c it hasn't been filtered by "the fair and balanced" channel. :eyes: <---- and that's TRUE ~ a "1%'er" said that to me within the past month!

[Wiley50]

2. Now it makes sense

maybe that's why rimjob was over here on the sly tonight
to try to stir up shit on SPLC

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x928639

ck out #19 and posts answering it

He pretty much admits itin post#35,I think

[Mind_your_head]

3. self-delete

[physioex]

4. Ohhh...Great.

Now they can bitch about the Liberal "Internets"..... :nopity: