With the Washington, DC, local elections looming just two weeks away, I had the opportunity to attend today’s Washington Post Mayoral Debate at the Newseum.  Even though filled with ticketholders, the room was buzzing with laptops and smartphones as those of us in our seats sent debate updates out to our friends and social networks online.  Want to submit a question for the candidates?  Broadband powers your access to the Washington Post website to submit your question.  Want to follow the discussion live on Twitter?  You could follow the discussion online here http://www.slurp140.com/dcmayor.   Want to learn what the experts thought of the debate?  Broadband powers searchable news.

The candidates themselves are also embracing broadband technologies so that voters can access their messages and give donations at their convenience online.  Political ads may run once or twice on TV, but they are available on demand through candidate websites, and generating thousands of online views.   Of course, no campaign is complete without a social networking strategy, so local candidates are embracing tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to access voters at on the websites they visit daily.

From local to national, as politicians (and the publications that cover them) increasingly rely on broadband tools, it is critical for voters to adopt broadband to be a part of the dialogue.

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