A story about someone I an familiar with:

[robbedvoter]

Where Political Influence Is Only a Keyboard Away
More than ever, the Internet gives people a connection -- and a voice -- in campaigns.
 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-internet21dec21,1,1660566.story?coll=la-home-headlines

  GOBy Matea Gold, Times Staff Writer
NEW YORK — Every morning, before her 5-year-old daughter wakes up, Leah Faerstein sits down at her computer in her East Village apartment and logs onto Democratic presidential candidate Wesley K. Clark's Web site.
A few years ago, Faerstein was politically indifferent and didn't own a computer. But now the stay-at-home mom spends hours a day on Clark's Web log, or blog, munching on chocolate Clark bars and chatting with other aficionados of the former NATO commander.   
     
 Recently, she was thrilled to hear Clark use a phrase about democracy that she had suggested on the blog.
"I'm not going to take the credit," said Faerstein, 50. "But I think it's osmosis. There's a back and forth between us and the campaign. I couldn't feel more connected."
Faerstein is one of hundreds of thousands of people who have turned to the Internet this year to participate in national politics, relying on a technology that is playing a central role in the way citizens are experiencing the 2004 presidential campaign.

[Fridays Child]

1. The name is very familiar.

I think we've been active in a lot of the same Internet circles--maybe Voter March and/or some of the Yahoo groups. I can't think of where, exactly, but I know I've read her writing.

[OKNancy]

2. Yeah for you robbed!

Great article, but lay off the Clark bars....lol

[robbedvoter]

3. She actually told her she tries to get other chocolate and keep the bars

for outreach, but Gold thought it made a cuter story! ;-)

[robbedvoter]

4. Shameless kick!

[bicentennial_baby]

5. Go Leah!

She's been rocking the house over at the Clark Yahoo group for months, and now she's a star! :bounce: