The Internet provides the government, media, and various other groups with a convenient medium by which to communicate and ultimately influence people. The expediency of the Internet facilitates the prompt composition and delivery of an email instead of performing the more arduous and expensive task of letter writing. The Internet has even demonstrated its usefulness in financial transactions - one may send money over the Internet with far less difficulty than attending a fundraiser or answering a direct mail pledge. The Internet savvy campaign team of former presidential candidate Howard Dean confirmed this long before his downfall. In so far as undecided voters are concerned, the Internet serves as a major resource of information for those who are surfing the Web to do research on candidates, seeing as voting records and other pertinent data are just a few keystrokes away. (more…)