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+Call me cynical but I was half expecting a panel entitled The Internet Can Make You President to be about e-voting machine hacks, fortunately SXSW has a brighter outlook on the future of politics.
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+The, Net Politics: The Internet Can Make You President, panel consisted of Mark Stama from the Texas House of Representative as well as Patrick Ruffini who is consulting for Rudy Giuliani's campaign, Mark Soohoo from McCain's campaign, and Clay Johnson, formerly of the Dean from America campaign.
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+Ostensibly the panel members where there to talk about ways in which candidates can use the internet to connect with people, but at this point it seems that the main use for the internet is as a fundraising tool.
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+The problem, from the panel's point to view, is how to translate online groups and political action organizations which draw on the populist nature of the internet into some kind of real world support that goes beyond the simple tip jar aspect of current online campaign drives.
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+The panel also touched on the fact that while Dean is often seen as the first candidate to embrace the internet, in fact it was more that the internet embraced him. Johnson said that Dean's success on the internet was largely a result of the internet finding Dean rather than Dean being internet savvy. In other words, [McLuhan][1] be damned, it's still the message that draws people to a candidate and campaign.
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+The number one thing the panelists suggested candidates not do: Second Life.
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+[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan "Marshall McLuhan"
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