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Presidential Candidate Howard Dean Turns Web into Golden Soapbox.

By Laura Kurtzman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 21--Until he found Howard Dean on the Internet, Corey Sommers, a Silicon Valley marketing executive, kept politics at arm's length. He had never donated to a candidate, and he had not always made it to the polls on Election Day.

But Dean enticed him with an Internet petition against the war in Ira....

Within an hour, Sommers had his own personalized Web page on Dean's site and had committed to raising $5,000 for a Democratic presidential candidate he ha

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