By: Sean J. Connolly
The month before Scott Brown convinced President Barack Obama’s rosy-eyed team of political climate change, Micah Sifry posted a rant on techPresident.com rejecting the notion that the Internet had empowered ordinary citizens during the president’s 2008 campaign.
“The big story of 2009,” wrote Sifry, a former editor of The Nation magazine, is that “the people who voted for [Obama] weren’t organized in any kind of new or powerful way.” Looking back to the 2008 campaign, Sifry doesn’t see increased public participation and openness. He sees tighter control.
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