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I'm really interested in how this is going to play out in the election 2008. Online, Republican candidate Ron Paul is a major presence, winning most of the major polls, generating tons of traffic on Google and Technorati searches, and bringing people to meetup.com groups. Offline, the last Zogby phone poll showed him at 3% and the newscasters still dismiss him as a second-tier candidate.

For stevepavlina.com, all that's needed is web traffic, but lots of people vote who are not web savvy. It will be interesting to see to what extent all the internet buzz will influence the mainstream media and if a candidate can cross over from being popular online to real-world popularity as measured by polls and votes.