Let’s get one thing straight: the Internet is not going to win this presidential election for anybody.

Let’s get one thing straight: the Internet is not going to win this

presidential election for anybody.



Comparisons to the role played by television in 1960 are based on a

complete misunderstanding of that election and the role of media in

politics. Michael Cornfield, research director of the Democracy Online

Project and associate research professor at George Washington

University, says simply: ’The Internet will be about as important as the

phonograph was ...