Vote.Com - Softcover

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Forget everything you think you know about politics.In Vote.com, a revolutionary new book, Dick Morris identifies an overwhelming new force in American politics - the Internet.On his popular Web site of the same name, Morris envisions a world in which current political institutions, special interests, and the media are forced to return power to the people.The overwhelming public support for President Clinton during the impeachment hearings, via the Internet, changed the way Congress and the media consider the electorate.In the process, the fifty million people who log onto the Web every day re-invented our government.Dick Morris, the master of polling, spin, and television advertising, explains how anyone with access to a computer is now directly involved in the political process and can contact representatives directly and get their voice heard by those who are listening intently to everything the new medium has to offer.Who knows better than bestselling author Dick Morris where America is headed?His uncanny sixth sense for analyzing the shifts in the public's moods was the driving force behind Bill Clinton's 1996 presidential re-election campaign.Vote.com is his manifesto for the "Fifth Estate," a term he uses to describe the amalgam of Internet technology and the new voters who will no longer stand by passively while the media and the old-school institutions tell them what they think, feel, and believe.AUTHORBIO: Dick Morris started his political career working in Democratic Party politics on Manhattan's Upper West Side.His long association with President Clinton began in the late 1970's and continued for twenty years.He has also worked as an advisor to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and other Republicans.Time magazine referred to him as "The most influential private citizen in America...a gleeful genius."He lives in New York City.

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