techPresident was nice enough to lump me in with a host of far better writers on the topic of how the candidates are using the Web for a 2007 in review post. You can check out the highlights of all of our thoughts at techPresident. Very interesting conclusions with Ron Paula and Barack Obama leading the pack in most questions but some mentions for John Edwards, Chris Dodd and Hillary Clinton in there.

Not many Republicans are seen as really using the Web effectively, other than some brief Mitt Romney and John McCain mentions. For the most part I found it interesting that many of us who were asked to comment agreed on most of the answers.

Thanks to techPresident for letting me be involved!

I have never been a fan of polling people with online forms. Online polling is so easily manipulated it is a joke. In most cases simply deleting your cookies will let you vote a second, third, fourth, fifth time. If that doesn’t work there is an endless stream of over things you can do to mess with the vote, which is why Ron Paul wins every online poll taken right after Republican debates.

Right not TechCrunch has an online poll about who will be America’s best choice for a technology friendly president. Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul are leading with Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee coming in second. However Ron Paul’s vote total is two thousand votes higher than all of those who voted for Democratic candidates combined. In fact he has 1599 more votes than all of the other candidates Republican and Democrat combined.

A man who basically has admitted he knows nothing about the Internet and will cut government spending on all kinds of amazing science and math projects is the overwhelming choice of this online poll.
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