“Politicians will tell you just about anything they think you
want to hear. But this year’s real story beams through in numbers.
Here’s a follow-up to our first random, but awfully revealing
number narrative. It says as much about those of us who surf the
Net as it does about the politicians who crave our votes.”
“2. Ratio of Lycos searches for Ariz. Sen. John McCain to those
for Bush during the first week in February: 2 to 1”
“10. Number of major presidential Web sites running on a Sun
Solaris platform: 4”
“11. Number of major presidential Web sites running on a
Linux platform: 1 (Gore)”