WASHINGTON - For candidates embracing the brave new world of online politics, the Internet giveth and the Internet taketh away.
The 2008 presidential campaign is revving up earlier than ever, and candidates are using new online tools or techniques already used by advocacy groups and non-profits. They include popular social networking sites to organize, a growing reliance on high-profile bloggers and use of widely shared video -- such as the Webcasts of Democrats Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama announcing their campaigns.
``Web campaigning is becoming highly sophisticated, a central part of any candidate's plan to win,'' said Rick White, a former Republican congressman from the Seattle area and a consultant on tech issues.
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