The Low-Tech Times previously published a piece considering if Senator John McCain was a low-tech candidate for president.
As it turns out, he is not a low-tech candidate. In fact, this article by Jacob Weisburg describes McCain as the most tech-savvy of all the candidates during the 2000 presidential race:
Six months ago, no one would have pegged McCain as the most cybersavvy of this year’s crop of candidates. At 63, he is the oldest of the bunch and because of his war injuries, he is limited in his ability to wield a keyboard. But McCain’s job as chairman of the Senate commerce committee forced him to learn about the Internet early on, and young Web entrepreneurs such as Jerry Yang and Jeff Bezos fascinate him. Well before he announced his exploratory committee, McCain had assimilated the notion that the Web could be vital to the kind of insurgent, anti-establishment campaign he wanted to run. In December 1998, he sent his longtime political aide Wes Gullett to Minnesota to study Jesse Ventura’s successful gubernatorial campaign, which was the first to use the Web in an effective and innovative way. “Wes went up to Minnesota and talked to Ventura’s people,” McCain told reporters on the Straight Talk Express yesterday. “That’s really where we got the idea.”
Sarah Lai Stirland writes an article about this year’s campaign where McCain’s staff used a web spider to sting Obama:
At least one side has started to spider the other’s campaign website to track that campaign pages’ precise word changes up to an hourly basis.
John McCain’s campaign published a side-by-side comparison of Barack Obama’s Iraq War policy web pages on Tuesday using a new automated online tracking service called Versionista.