Tag: GIULIANI

Politics is a dirty, dirty game. Just ask Michael Dukakis or John McCain. But just as the Internet has emerged as one of the most potent tools of the modern day election cycle, push polling has given way to an even more blatant form of deception -- fake candidate Web sites. According to 'Wired,' the phenomenon seems to be particularly targeted at high-profile Republican candidates, Fred ...

While everyone today walks around with a cell phone in his pocket or purse, most people have the common sense to set it on silent when in theaters or, say, giving speeches. Forget that, and you run the risk of embarrassment, like a woman at a recent press conference for presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani who was called out by the man himself during his speech when her phone rang. Odd, then, that ...

This election cycle is becoming the year politics go super-digital. Take a quick look at any of the candidates' websites -- each one reveals a host of buttons linking to the various candidates' digital outposts on various social Web services. Each site has a blog, a MySpace page, and a YouTube channel. Each one also provides tools to help supporters organize. This is not just the result ...