Closing gaps, moving hurdles: Candidate web site communication in the 2006 campaigns for congress

Politicking online: The transformation of election campaign communications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 48-76

  Gulati, Girish J Jeff ^a   Williams, Christine B ^a  

^a BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

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