Book Review: Campaign Song 2008? Strike Up the Broadband

CAMPAIGN SONG 2008? STRIKE UP THE BROADBAND
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Michiko Kakutani]
Already, the influence of the Internet and new media has been felt on the national political scene — from the success of Barack Obama in raising large amounts of money from small donors over the Web, to the George Allen “Macaca” clip posted on YouTube, which played a key role in his losing his Senate seat in 2006, thereby helping turn over control of the Senate to the Democrats. In his lively new book, “The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web and the Race for the White House,” Garrett M. Graff — the founding editor of the blog FishbowlDC.com and editor at large of Washingtonian magazine — asks how the technology that is transforming the global economy is going to affect the “first campaign of the new age.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/books/18kaku.html?ref=todayspaper
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