How the Internet Is Changing Politics

Candidates learn to wage campaigns in a new and promising battleground

Old Glory sways limply in the breeze from a hardware store just west of The Grand Saloon, an old-school pub on East 23rd Street in Manhattan whose red neon sign and copper facade promise an inviting retreat from the biting January wind. Inside, about 100 Wesley Clark supporters strain to hear a blonde-bobbed, middle-aged woman with a slight voice.

“We can’t hear you,” one of them shouts.