It seems one of the political parties in Ireland is going to be using the expertise of an American consultant who has worked on some very successful election campaigns in the US. He worked on the Internet strategy for a few of the larger campaigns in the US. There’ll be more about this in the Sunday papers. Maybe the rest will start getting a clue too?
There was an article in the New York Review of Books recently on the use of the web in recent US elections: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18910
Quite interetsing