Point well made on Obama's use of communication technology. A further example: a neighbour and his Blackberry volunteered on election day in the former red state of NH. His job was to enter and send to the local Dem headquarters numerical data representing the names of those who had voted in his precinct as they exited the polling location. They were then removed from the phone list of get-out-the-vote calling that was being done there by other volunteers at the headquarters. Voila, NH turned blue.

And just to further set the record straight, our former VT governor, Howard Dean, now chair of the Democrats, is, without a doubt, the father of internet use in campaigning.