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Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:24 AM

A White House Web Scenario

By KEVIN FRIEDL and MICHELLE WILLIAMS

Barack Obama has made it clear that he intends to bring with him to the White House the same online organizing and messaging tools he used so successfully during the campaign. That's made some in Washington nervous, and with good reason. No candidate had ever marshaled supporters as effectively, and no president has entered office with such a network so firmly intact. The following is one imagined scenario of how the Obama White House could use these tools to set the agenda in Washington.

Please offer your own scenarios in the comments section.

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