From an article in the Kansas City Star on the KC mayoral race:

Still, the Internet is a good way for candidates to communicate with their base and raise funds, said Antonio French, a St. Louis political observer and sometime campaign adviser. It has the advantage of being cheap, potentially yielding more votes for the dollars spent…

French acknowledged that the blogging era is still in its infancy, is more prevalent in middle class and affluent neighborhoods, and has yet to really make an impact in poorer, minority or rural communities.

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An article in Friday’s Post-Dispatch gives props to Pub Def for our political coverage throughout 2006. Thanks to political reporter Jo Mannies for the love.

French, who operates Pubdef, said political activists at all levels had better get used to the relentless characteristic of these blog sites.

As he sees it: “The Internet has introduced the 24-hour news cycle to local politics.”