August Politics/Technology Update

The common wisdom is that August is typically a slow news month at least on the political front. That's more or less the case now in the US except for the brou-ha-ha over the health care project and raucous town meetings.
Today's papers have two interesting takes on the matter suggesting that there are indeed two sides to this battle, but they're not the two sides people have been focusing on. In the Washington Post, Kate Phillips has "Bill Clinton: The Time is Now," an article about Clinton's keynote address at Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh (http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/bill-clinton-the-time-is-n...). In the Washington Post, Vijay Ravindran Chief Digital Officer writes "Overlooking a Revolution," discussing the evolution of political and digital infrastructures (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/13/AR200908...).
It's scarcely an original question, but it bears asking again: are the two sides in the current debate digital and tomorrow versus the status quo? The media are more experienced and better at covering the status quo (that would be the raucous town meetings and the press releases). Coverage of the digital and new media world is more difficult and, in many cases, confined to that same world.
In the last election, Obama obviously used technology much more effectively than did John McCain. I doubt that was a one-shot event. However, it would be foolish to think that it was a sea-change that will last forever. I suspect we're in for a long spell of back-and-forth as the battles between digital and new media versus the status quo of politics continues.
I know the long-term winner, but it's a question of how long the battle will be. And it seems that the health care reform issues are irrelevant to this battle although they're caught up in it.