CANDIDATES ATTACK BEHIND THE SCENES VOTER SITES HUMOR BEGINNING

ELECTION YEARS HIGHLIGHTS AND THEMES THE DESKTOP CANDIDATE CREDITS

For the desktop candidate, the Internet's openness and almost non-existent barriers to entry can be a double-edged sword.

Dole96.org Millions of naïve Web users arrived at this pixel-for-pixel parody of Dole's actual site thinking it was the real thing. screen46.jpg GWBush.com (1999) A subtle (at first glance) and biting subversion of Bush's actual site created by the activist artists ®TMark and programmed by Zack Exley, the site has since turned, in Exley's hands, into a broad parody. The story of GWBush.com Current GWBush.com site AlGore-2000.org This parodic portal-the spitting image of Gore's actual site-links to "real" articles critical of the vice-president. Hadassah Lieberman's write-up is replaced by a bio of Risky the Tax Scheme Dog. Duke2000 The first, but perhaps not the last, computer-generated presidential candidate.

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