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"It's one of the fastest growing mediums in politics and it's getting our undivided attention. It's now a question of who's winning the e-race, the e-campaign." - Greg Sedberry, George W. Bush's website manager on the use of the Web as a promo- tional tool.

"There's a certain stealthfulness to the Internet. It's a new form of campaign warfare." - Rick Segal, director of US presiden- tial hopeful Steve Forbes's Internet strategy, speaking after the Forbes campaign team sent 42,000 people a copy of a recent column mocking Bush for a "drunken college escapade".