And there are nonprofit sites that have made names for themselves by providing quality political information. One such site is the Democracy Network, which won a recent FEC ruling lifting the ban on nonprofits hosting online candidate debates. I think that car manufacturers and computer manufacturers are all going to want to speak to this audience. The company contends that candidates and campaigns will be a source of this advertising, once the site starts to build traffic. There's been a constant argument on the Web since the beginning.
Some observers are skeptical about the business models being proposed by the new political sites.
Roast pork unless he changes his point of view. Elizabeth Wasserman is the Washington bureau chief of the Industry Standard . All rights reserved.