Opinion: Now that’s group diversity

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Political campaigns are always desperate to make linkages with voters. The web has become the great facilitator of such linkages, enabling campaigns and their supporters to, for instance, find each other in neighborhoods and organize hundreds of individual house parties to watch debates.

Barack Obama’s site, My.BarackObama.com, has become particularly adept at this group-forming.

Now the Review-Journal in Las Vegas has uncovered likely one of the most arcane, if not exclusive, political groups so far in the 2008 campaign. It’s the Italian Buddhist Cowboy Lawyers for Obama, run by Greg Cortese, a 35-year-old Las Vegas lawyer.

So far, Cortese has been unable to get his father to join the group. Seems he’s a Republican.

--Andrew Malcolm