The Present and Future of Blogitics
By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Howard Dean has been widely considered to be this year's Internet candidate, and his blog and Web presence helped propel him to one of the major candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. But his failure to win in Iowa followed by his speech-cum-shriek, and his potential failure to win in New Hampshire after leading there for many months (at the writing of this article, John Kerry is ahead in the polls) has prompted some to muse that blogs and the Internet are less important to the process than many thought. Humor blogger Scott Ott wrote this recent parody post speculating hilariously that the Internet and blogs were "hardest hit" by the Dean loss. All humor aside, it is worth asking how Dean's loss might affect the power of blogs and the Internet to influence presidential politics.