'Meet-Ups' Gain Popularity Thanks to Political Exposure

Sunday Gazette-Mail › February 17, 2004

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PHILADELPHIA - Every election cycle brings new Internet tools to woo voters - if only the politicians can find a way to make them work.

In 1996, it was e-mail. Four years later, Web sites generated the first fund-raising dollars, and for the 2002 midterm elections, political blogs (Web logs) made their first appearance.

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'Meet-Ups' Gain Popularity Thanks to Political Exposure

Now electronic grass-roots organizing appears to be the calling card of Election 2004, thanks to the popularity of MeetUp.com. And the company is trying to harness the momentum that it received from Howard Dean to est...

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