They have more staff than us. Indeed, the chaos in Florida seems to have spurred the Republican Party into action online. The Bush campaign is updating its site daily with statements from former Secretary of State James Baker, campaign Chairman Don Evans and George W. Bush himself. Similarly, the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Florida have been updating their sites regularly with speech transcripts. The Bush site received 339,918 hits last Friday, he says.
Political strategists take another view.
Both Yeatts and Schneider considered Gore's suddenly low-key Internet presence a misstep. But Bush still falls short, they argue, because his site lacks information on Florida legal briefings, which are commonly found on news sites. Whoever ends up conceding the big prize in this cliffhanger of a presidential election, Yeatts says, should use his Web site to thank supporters and refer them back to their parties' sites in an effort to hold on to that support. After all, it's never too early to start thinking about the 2002 election. Privacy Policy Stock data provided by Stockpoint and its data suppliers.