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IP: New (free) Publication: Campaign Web Review
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 17:49:23 -0500
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:27:10 -0400 To: farber () linc cis upenn edu From: Jonah Seiger <jseiger () mindshare net> Greetings: How is the Internet being used by candidates in 1998? What's working? What's not? In an effort to chronicle the impact of the Internet on the 1998 election cycle and to shed some light on how candidate campaigns are (for better or worse) using the Net as part of their campaign strategy, mindshare Internet Campaigns co-founders Shabbir Safdar and Jonah Seiger have joined with Prof. Michael Cornfield of the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management to produce Campaign Web Review. Campaign Web Review (CWR) is a free bi-weekly email and web-based newsletter. The inaugural issue, covering the upcoming Georgia Governor's race (primary Tuesday 7.21) is attached below. You can also find it online at http://www.campaignwebreview.com/ If you like what you see, we hope you will subscribe. Details can be found at the site. Please also feel free to fwd this announcement. A few notes about CWR: This publication is intended as a 'labor of love' -- we have no plans to charge subscription fees or sell advertising space. CWR will not review or discuss any campaign or candidate with which any of the editors have an affiliation or association, professional or otherwise. Finally, please pardon the unsolicited invitation. We have sent this note to friends and colleagues only. You will not receive any further announcements of CWR, but we do hope you will consider subscribing. Best, Jonah Seiger & Shabbir Safdar co-founders, mindshare Internet Campaigns, LLC. ========================================================================== _____ _____ / __\ \ / / _ \ CAMPAIGN WEB REVIEW | (__ \ \/\/ /| / A bi-weekly newsletter examining the use of the \___| \_/\_/ |_|_\ Internet by political campaigns in 1998 http://www.campaignwebreview.com/ July 20, 1998 | Issue 1.1 __________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents What is Campaign Web Review? Browsing the Georgia Governor's Race So where's the campaign? About Campaign Web Review / Unsubscribe information __________________________________________________________________________ WHAT IS CAMPAIGN WEB REVIEW? In an effort to chronicle the growth of the Internet as a political communications medium, three leading experts in Internet campaign strategies and political science have come together to produce Campaign Web Review, a free, bi-weekly newsletter examining the use of the Internet by political candidate and initiative campaigns in the 1998 election cycle. Campaign Web Review will seek to highlight the ways candidates and campaigns are using the Internet and provide perspective on the positive (and negative) impact of the introduction of this powerful new medium is having on the electoral process. Every two weeks, Campaign Web Review will profile a congressional, gubernatorial, initiative, or other statewide race for elective office in which candidates and groups are using the Internet as part of their campaign strategy. The goal? To promote a better understanding among the press, candidates, political professionals, academics, and the public of the growing importance of the Internet in politics. We also hope to provide insight into the new techniques and methods that may come with this new medium. To learn more about Campaign Web Review, and to meet your editors, Michael Cornfield, Shabbir J. Safdar, and Jonah Seiger see: http://www.campaignwebreview.com/ __________________________________________________________________________ BROWSING THE GEORGIA GOVERNOR'S RACE July 17, 1998 With the primary vote set for Tuesday July 21, the race to succeed the popular Zell Miller as Georgia Governor has boiled down to two candidates in each party. Bidding to become the first Republican Governor since Scarlett returned to Tara are Guy Millner and Michael Bowers; the top Democratic candidates are Roy Barnes and Lewis Massey. An early July survey of likely voters reported: Democrats Republicans Millner 58% Barnes 40% Bowers 21% Massey 24% Undecided 12% Undecided 24% It's an open primary (voters may ask for either ballot at the polling booth), and turnout is expected to be quite low. That means the race will likely pivot on turnout and, perhaps, cross-over voters. In this kind of environment, every asset counts, including the ways the candidates use the Internet to mobilize hardcore supporters and convince their faithful to stay in the party. How'd they do? We review the top campaign sites... http://www.campaignwebreview.com/issues/17071998-3.shtml __________________________________________________________________________ SO WHERE'S THE CAMPAIGN? It can be extremely difficult for even the most civic minded citizen to make sense of the political landscape. Consider that in the 1998 California Primary: There were 87 statewide candidates, nine ballot initiatives, and too many special district and local races to count. This year, for the first time, candidate races were even more complicated because of the new "blanket primary" in which all names appeared on a universal ballot, regardless of the candidates' and voters' party affiliation (or lack thereof). The California electorate is so huge that State Senators represent more people than U.S. Representatives. To reach voters, campaigners in California have to rely almost exclusively on the media. The four major candidates for Governor, the three major candidates for the U.S. Senate, and the big-budget initiative campaigns bought up most of the available television ad space. The CBS affiliates in Los Angeles and San Francisco refused to sell time to statewide candidates other than for Governor and U.S. Senator. This situation led Robert M. Stern, former general counsel of the state1s Fair Political Practices Commission, to wonder aloud to Dan Morain of the Los Angeles Times (May 30, 1998): The real question is how do you campaign in this state. The irony is that TV is not covering the campaigns in their news, and the candidates can't buy TV time. So where's the campaign? Where, indeed? More of it should have been online. http://www.campaignwebreview.com/issues/04061998.shtml __________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT CAMPAIGN WEB REVIEW / UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION Campaign Web Review is published bi-weekly at http://www.campaignwebreview.com and on the announcement-only email list, cwr () campaignwebreview com. To unsubscribe from cwr () campaignwebreview com, send an email message to majordomo () campaignwebreview com with unsubscribe cwr in the body of the message. To subscribe, visit our site. __________________________________________________________________________ end cwr () campaignwebreview com 07.20.1998 ==========================================================================
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