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Article: Ventura plugs into cash, support with Web site
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 2, 1999
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Across the country, Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura's election
campaign last year is being admired for its breakthrough use of the
Internet - joining meager finances with high technology to generate
campaign donations, instant communications and a quick-to-mobilize
force of committed volunteers to deliver a stunning political
victory.
"Every time a new communications technology is invented, some
politician understands that new technology and comes to dominate
their political era," said Phil Noble, president of PoliticsOnline, a
South Carolina-based company and Web site.
In the 1960s, Noble said, the politician was John F. Kennedy and