Just got of the air with celebrity talk show genius Roland Martin. If you haven’t heard him on air in Chicago you probably have seem him on CNN. He is one of their most solid and energizing political contributors. We discussed the internet and the role it’s playing in the election. Bottom line: the internet ha leveled the playing field for sure in the 2008 election. Look, big money campaigns that can buy big media days are over (like analog tv-that’s a story for another day). If you were to choose the nominees based solely on the internet popularity of each candidate the results would be: Democrat = Barack Obama and Republicans = Ron Paul with a strong lead and the most money raised online than any other Republican candidate.

These are truly interesting times, I mean nowadays watching a primary with live tickers and play-by-play instant-live blogging updates – watching politics is like watching ESPN. I mean people are at bars with net-connected computers watching 50 inch screens and blogging! Will this translate into newer audiences, will this type of activity translate into new votes?

Your thoughts? Will the online momentum die out, does it have the power to bring out new non-voters to the booths – hit us up with a comment below!

PS-some of the websites I shared on Rolands show today are:

www.techpresident.com,   www.politico.com,   www.opensecrets.org