Steven Clift, the Minnesota-based originator of the Democracies Online
Newswire and an expert on how governments can connect with citizens via
the web, is quoted in an Associated Press story about MySpace. AP reporter
Anick Jesdanun's Aug. 17, 2006, story, "Candidates seek youths at
MySpace", reports on unauthorized MySpaces pages for political candidates
and how the candidates are dealing with them. "It's almost like an
endorsement list," Clift told Jesdanun. "Pictures show up, and it gave me
the impression that these are real people who support these people." Clift
adds in an email to friends: "The most popular candidate on MySpace by
far is Kinky Friedman, the independent candidate for Governor in Texas. He
has close to 25,000 friends on MySpace. That is five times more than the
Democratic candidate for Governor in California mentioned [in The AP
story].
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