INTERNET IN POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS

In 1989, Ronald Reagan proclaimed that "the communications revolution will be the greatest force for the advancement of human freedom that the world has ever known." As the Internet and other high-tech communications gadgets have become increasingly, important in political campaigns around the world, maybe - in a decade or so - his prophecy will come true and Nigerians, Saudis, and Kazakhs might routinely, download the U.S. Constitution and vote over cell phones in mass parliaments. This article offers a pertinent analysis of the impact of the internet on the political life and the electoral communication, some approaches of it making obvious its political potential during the electoral campaigns in two of the most representative democracies of the world-France and The United Slates of America.