Reporting for ABC News former Rocketboomer Amanda Congdon gives some thoughts about the move online for candidates. What to know, what to be aware of

Looks like Senator John Kerry has decided not to run for the nomination according to the Boston Globe.

I joined in on Hillary Clinton’s “Conversation” with voters tonight. I have to say I was pretty impressed with the live Web chat which I found, well I will be honest, stupid when I first heard about it. I don’t know why I thought it was stupid. It could be because when you goto John Edwards site it is one new Web gadget after another with no real point. I thought this could just be one more thing. I will say that the video worked great, looked good and Ms. Clinton basically just sat down, answered questions and talked about her ideas in pretty basic but well informed chunks. She needs to stop emphasizing “that this is a conversation” so often, but I get it, that is the point.

I don’t know how scripted, to be honest, this whole thing is/was. For all I know they basically said “okay, we will field a question about X and Y and then Z” but I have no idea if that is the case so I am just going to say, job well done. Good use of technology, good idea and well executed. Looks like they are archiving these on her site.

Well this is interesting. Senator McCain has lost a little of his “Maverick” appeal lately in the media. Less stories about him going against the grain and more of his sidling up to the President. You can argue both ways on how/why that has happened, if it is accurate or not but according to Roger Simon writer in the Politico McCain may have just given the media a reason not to write the Senator off as an administration lackey.

McCain for the first time said the Iraq war was terribly mishandled and blamed the Vice President and the Secretary of Defense for its execution. He said that the President is ultimately responsible but that he was not served well by either advisor.He also noted “Rumsfeld will go down in history, along with McNamara, as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history.”

There is plenty more but you need to head over to Politico to read it.

Well John Edward’s is really going all out with technology including an updating John Edwards information Widget! If you are Mac user (like the Election Geek) you will at the very least like knowing at least one candidate’s campaign at least knows what a widget is!

Link found care of TUAW which also contains information on the creator of the widget!