Saturday, January 06, 2001

Get Out the Vote: The Web has become a must tool for most political lobbyists. Some do it better than others

"Get Out the Vote: The Web has become a must tool for most political lobbyists. Some do it better than others"

By MICHAEL TOTTY

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1018650866755190720,00.html

"The Congress Online Project, a research program by George Washington University and the Congressional Management Foundation, last year completed a study of the use of e-mail by members of Congress. While the study found that all but about two dozen House and Senate offices regularly used e-mail to communicate with constituents, it also found that Congress was unable to keep pace with a flood of electronic missives: Representatives received more than 48 million messages from constituents in 2000, up from 20 million in 1998, and the numbers are rising by an average of a million messages a month."


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