Interactive election campaign

Never before has the web played such a role during an election season. First, there are all are the breaking stories that come in real time on computers, then the contless blogs that bring a more diverse array of interesting slant to the campaigns, including the gossip and the most outrageous stories. Finally, each article becomes the reason for a forum where readers can spill their guts and shoot their response it as they see it. On the New York Times alone, it’s quite common to see five or eight hundred responses to an article, before the section is closed for comments, with most of them often enlightening, witty, partisan, pragmatic and unfortunately sometime a bit too long (most people still don’t know how to condense their thoughts down to the essential.) Reactions like these have forced the financial crisis negotiation to go deeper and away from the one-sided version offered by the Bush government and have opened a can of worms upon Sarah Palin among other salutary results. More so than newspapers, TV and radio, the internet has become the conduit for democracy; keep it up!