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"It's one of the fastest growing mediums in politics and it's getting our undivided attention

"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".

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Conor Pope

Conor Pope

Conor Pope is Consumer Affairs Correspondent, Pricewatch Editor