Former Senator Gary Hart (D-Colo.) has started a blog. He joins former Vermont Governor Howard Dean as a 2004 presidential candidate to embrace this technology.
Make no mistake, this is the start of a significant trend. Blogs will eventually be seen as a campaign necessity. They provide an easy and inexpensive way for candidates to talk about their message in a more personal (or personal-sounding) way.
It is going to be interesting to watch how these candidate blogs evolve over the next few months. One can also expect the rise of significant campaign opposition blogs to respond to candidate statements and events in real time. It is part of the natural evolution of internet campaigning.
This is going to be fun to watch.
(Thanks to Taegan Goodard's Political Wire for the link.)
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