My brother sent me this and I thought to pass it on.
We may want to get ready for this. There appears to be a Mccain Tech-savvy ad in the can ... waiting...
The main bulk of information is from a Forbes article from 2000 (the Year 2K), and it’s clear that McCain is not clueless about computers, email, and the internet.
McCain cashes in with Internet fund-raising chat
February 11, 2000
Web posted at: 12:07 p.m. EST (1707 GMT)
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (CNN) — In a new approach toÊthe often tedious campaign task of raising money, Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain chatted on the Internet Thursday with 500 people who paid $100 each to watch him via satellite and send in e-mail queries.
The Arizona senator was online for about an hour during a multimedia webcast from the College of Charleston moderated by his wife, Cindy. He answered e-mail questions on a wide range of topics, including the environment, patriotism, and Internet taxation.
So Sen. McCain was doing an online chat in 2000?? What else?
Although Bush has taken in more than four times as much money as McCain so far in the 2000 presidential campaign, McCain has out-raised his Texas rival — as well as Democratic hopefuls Al Gore and Bill Bradley — over the Internet. More than $1 million in credit card donations alone flooded into the McCain Web site 48 hours after his victory in the New Hampshire primary.
"It will change America permanently because the next presidential campaign will be run over the Internet," McCain predicted
John McCain was into viral marketing in 2000???? From the NYT.
Besides contributions, 7,000 new volunteers have signed up at the Web site, campaign officials said.
Mr. McCain has raised $2.2 million on the Internet, the most among the Republicans. It is perhaps not surprising that his campaign has the most user-friendly site of all the major presidential candidates.
On the first page, a window pops up with the headline, "McCain wins New Hampshire." It is accompanied by a challenge from Mr. McCain: "Please join me today and together we can beat the special interests." And below that, there is a prompt to "click here to contribute today."
Not exciting by 2008 standards but the web has come orders of magnitude in that time.....
so we are looking for new countermeasures, talking points, any ideas kossacks?