The government is using the web to inform the people.
People are using the web for their political campaigns.

Example of somebody using a WebLog for campaigning:

* http://grubbforcongress.manilasites.com/

Using a weblog has the benefit of being simple to use for the candidate, and simple to contribute to for the readers.  Perhaps a Wiki would be even more interesting.  Note that on the discussion board to her About page, for example, people comment on the use of a WebLog to communicate:

: '' You just may be the first congressional canditate to use this communication channel. This will go down as one of those things others wonder why they wern't the first.'' -- Stephen Dulaney [steve@dulaney.net]
: ''  Yeah, she hasn't answered one question yet.'' -- Joe Blow [joe@blow.com]

Including reader responses gives the website ''street cred'' -- credibility that websites created by marketdroids do not have.  But it needs lots of grooming.

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My campaign site comes with a guestbook, which I would never think of deleting from, except maybe for extreme obscenity or something else in truly horrible taste.  My only problem is lack of traffic.