Ohio Candidate Seeks Advice of Web Surfers (Jeff Seeman)

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - An Ohio candidate in a long-shot bid to unseat a 16-term House veteran has an unusual approach in deciding how to spend his campaign. He asks Web surfers: Should he sleep in? Prepare for his debate? Campaign door to door?

"It's all about listening to the people," Democrat Jeff Seemann said from a candidate forum in Alliance, Ohio, that Internet voters said he should attend.

Online campaigning was credited with helping former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (news - web sites) raise millions of dollars and surge to the front of the presidential pack early in the Democratic primary campaign season. Seemann, who is running against Republican Rep. Ralph Regula (news, bio, voting record) in northeast Ohio, decided to take Dean's tactics a step further.

"I have been running a campaign saying that my opponent is out of touch with his community. This is further proof that not only do I want to listen to the people, I am listening to them."

Several political weblogs, including Daily Kos, Pandagon.com and MyDD.com, which get as many as 440,000 hits a day, advertised Seemann's plan and encouraged people to vote on his schedule:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=684&ncid=696&e=4&u=/ap/20041008/ap_on_el_ho/internet_candidate

[patdem]

1. Jeff Seeman is a DUer...RATE the story!

[Cha]

2. Read and Rated!

To Jeff, :toast:

[Pastiche423]

7. Correction

Jeff WAS a DUer.

Jeff is a progessive, a Dean Dozen and was an active participant in TYBOB (Turn Your Back On Bush) when it was considered "unPatriotic" to dissent.

And lest we forget the 7th inning banner!

GO JEFF!

[Rick Myers]

3. Jeff is a GREAT guy!!! Go get 'em!!!!

:kick: KICK!!! :kick:

[ozone_man]

4. This 'long shot' is going to win.

Jeff is a progressive Democrat and one of the recent Dean dozen.

[salin]

5. I gave him some support

earlier this week. Hope other Duers who haven't, but who can, do the same.

[UrbScotty]

6. Cool!

Go Jeff!

[Mr E McSquare]

8. North East, Ohio

Just e-mailed my friend Jodi asking her to vote and support Jeff Seemann.
She lives in North eastern Ohio.
Oh yeah My mother also. Thinking of girls before my mom? Whats wrong with me?