Were it not for the internet, Barack Obama would not be president,” Arianna Huffington said in 2008. “Were it not for the internet, Barack Obama would not have been the nominee.”
The President of the United States of the Internet
Claire McNear
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This is simply a convenient myth. McCain was equally active on the Internet. Obama was a creture of the Democratic Party and he was an important alternative, within the party, to her.
His popularity with the public was as much his message as it was the medium. He embodied what he said: hope and change. He embodied the American Dream.