Yep, a political scientist just did a study on state party web sites–coming in dead last?
Not Mississippi
Not Arkansas,
Not even Missouri
Illinois Democrats. (power point summary)
Illinois Republicans come in at 34
Now, the Party web site I would want, and the party web site the State Party would want are different things. I don’t doubt that or even mind it in many ways, but having a functional web site would be a big bonus.
Unfortunately, I think the problem is more than just not knowing what to put up there, but a lack of any idea how the Party couuld even use such a thing. It doesn’t need to be a neato Dean is going to take over the world from the net thing–and I’ve pointed out how before.
It wouldn’t involve a flood of annoying voters or anything like that, but it would provide a resource for the Party to reach out at the same time controlling message and the sort.
100 out of 100.
Not particularly suprising – unfortunately. It pretty much reflects the state of the IL Dem organization in general – why care about public communications when no one you don’t already personally know is important?
And everyone gave the people from Democracy for America who showed up at the Illinois State Fair such grief when we had the temerity to hand the ED of the IL Dem Party a handful of handwritten suggestions for how to improve both the party and, in particular, its web site….