Click here for a list of campaign sites and politicans' offices. Click here for Yahoo's on-line index of campaign sites. No wonder politicians jump on the Internet bandwagon with the same zeal as the county-fair circuit. Both offer the chance to rub elbows with constituents, sound off on issues and, to publishers' dismay, bypass the media and take their cases straight to the people. The end result is a better-educated electorate.
Publishers share that goal, and some now provide political information on line.
Like elsewhere in the wired world, though, serious discourse doesn't always rule when politics and the Internet connect. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas could conceivably have held their famous debates on line, but the most noted political dispute to date packed less punch. Like publishers, politicians learn that enthusiasm for the Internet's potential should be tempered by a dose of reality. An audio clip of Socks, the family cat. People say you can get position papers on the Internet.