Online adolescence

Peter Daou tells Ryan Grim of the Politico: "“Online politics is growing at a dramatic pace, so this is relatively new for everyone."

Really? It was my impression that "online politics"--I'm thinking here of the number of and amount of traffic to political websites--was past its adolescence and had all but stopped growing. Obviously, as web honcho for the Clintons, Daou wouldn't want to say that, but I could also just be incorrect. Anybody out there know better?

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Meh, depends on what you mean by growing. As the baby blue satan was saying just recently, all of the webosphere is the tiniest blip in the culture at large.

Everybody who cares about politics is already here. Perhaps the online political world is as big as it should be, unless you really want shots of a pantyless Hillary getting out of an SUV.

Posted by: MikeJ on October 23, 2007 05:18 PM

As someone who interacted with the Clinton-Gore '92 online campaign, online politics is certainly grown. Back then I had 30 people visit my Electronic Town Hall. Modest perhaps, but in percentage terms thats 30% of Web users at my site.

There is still plenty of growth to come. In 2004 the Democrats were looking to the Web as a fundraising device to close the gap with the GOP. That strategy matured in 2006 but the number of people following the campaign online was still a small fraction of the electorate.

This is going to be the first election where the Web is as important to the candidates as the establishment media. Stop using the phrase mainstream, its wrong, the Web is mainstream now. Its the establishment that you are complaining about.

Posted by: PHB on October 23, 2007 07:29 PM

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