Technology, the Internet & Progressive Politics

This piece by Frank E. Watkins is quite remarkable, in that it showed extremely savvy use of new media and technology when it was truly in its infancy. Targeting voters using their database, and then contacting them about recent controversies was particularly clever. However, the fact that Congressman Jackson used the same computer system - Monarch - that was used by his father - Rev. Jesse Jackson - to contact clergy, who then disseminated the information to their congregants, makes me concerned about church-state separation. The use of church visits in the campaign does, as well. I wonder what Americans United for Separation of Church & State would think of this article.