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...satisfied voter might well be a Gore voter. So might be an apathetic one. But not if they're too satisfied or apathetic to bother voting at all. Gore is fond of saying that the presidency isn't a popularity contest. Except that it is one, by definition, and not just over numbers, but over excitement levels. And when it comes to putting new faces in the voting booths, Al Gore is no John McCain, and neither is George W. Bush. The parties' respective bases will still have to do the heavy lifting...
With dotcoms imploding and voter apathy growing, this may seem an ill-omened time to launch a for-profit political website. Yet the Republican Convention swarmed last week with a new breed of dotcoms that offered everything from predictable punditry to floor-panning, 360[degree] webcams that online viewers could swivel with the click of a mouse...
...while it will take a lot more than a week of pageantry to change my voter registration, my recent softening should serve as a potent warning to the Gore camp: They'd better put on one hell of a show out there in Los Angeles. Because if the GOP can charm the likes of me, it's going to be a very tough ride into November...
...Experience several of aforementioned problems. Reflect on fact that the World Wide Web is, after all, a medium essentially devoted to text. That I don't really need a functioning, controllable live camera in the middle of a convention hall to become a better-informed voter. That the web sites of candidates and parties and news organizations offer articles and statements and position papers - thousands of them! - that I could visit right now, without needing any special plug-ins, and read to my heart's content about the issues facing the electorate in the first presidential election of the 21st...
...anticipates yet another new politics, born of a wide and deep disgruntlement with the status quo. Her evidence for the coming revolution is thin. The low voter turnouts she and her shadow conveners bewail as signs of disgust might just as plausibly be taken for the sleepy indifference of a fat and happy populace. But her larger charge--that the two parties, in thrall to a self-satisfied elite, have become homogeneous, to the detriment of a robust political debate--is far more plausible. Anyone who doubts it should be forced to explain the difference between George Bush's "compassionate...