Republicans steal Barack Obama's internet campaigning tricks

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Republicans steal Barack Obama's internet campaigning tricks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/18/republicans-internet-barack-obama

Ed Pilkington in New York

Since their election disaster, the right has used new media to gather strength, culminating in last weekend's huge protest

Erik Telford remembers all too vividly the dark cloud hanging over him on 5 November 2008, the day after Barack Obama was elected president. For the internet strategist at the rightwing campaign group Americans for Prosperity, election night was a double disaster. Not only had Obama won the votes, he had outwitted his Republican opponents in his use of new media tricks such as email recruiting and social networking.

"The left was far ahead of us. The efforts that Obama put into internet campaigning and what he accomplished were extraordinary," Telford says.