Let the games begin

The presidential campaign in the States has begun to reveal who the candidates in 2008 campaign will be. The voters of Iowa were the first to vote for the candidates that will run for the president of the country. It is obvious that the public's eye is on the Democratic party which is where the next American president is the most likely to come and in any case it would be something new in the American history. If one of the two most powerful candidates on the democratic side would win, Hillary Clinton would be the first woman president and Barack Obama the first African American president ever.

Their campaign has begun almost a year before and what is also new to the whole thing is the complexity of use of internet as a media of political propaganda.
Sites like www.hillaryclinton.com and www.barackobama.com are both highly interactive and appealing.

But the war for votes also takes place on other parts of the internet. One of the most interesting is the one taking place on you tube. There we can see that even if Se. Clinton was the first to use you tube for its promotion its opponents have taken the opportunity and posted very critical videos of her. So if on 8th of January 2008 you typed inn her name the first five posts are all critics or parodies on her.
If we make a search for Barack Obama we can see that the first five results are all pro-Obama. Obama has been namely very strongly supported by the internet users and probably one of the greatest successes of the whole campaign was the music video made the so called Obama girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU.