Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said GOP.com, which stands for “Grand Old Party,” the party’s nickname, will “help Republicans compete in any race, in any state, at any time.”<\/p>\n
Obama relied heavily on the Internet during his presidential campaign for organizing, fundraising and communicating and has created MySpace, Facebook and Flickr pages and a Twitter feed since entering the White House.<\/p>\n
The revamped GOP.com prominently features links on its home page to the Republican National Committee page on Facebook, its Twitter feed, its YouTube channel and its Flickr photo-sharing site.<\/p>\n
“It takes advantage of various online tools to connect Republicans and concerned Americans across the country to each other and party leaders, creating a larger, more informed, more organized, and more energized Republican community,” Steele said.<\/p>\n
GOP.com also features a number of blogs including a main blog titled “Sound Reasoning.”<\/p>\n
A section on “Republican Heroes” provides brief biographies of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play Major League baseball, former presidents Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower and Abraham Lincoln and others.<\/p>\n
The Democratic National Committee was quick to pounce on the new site noting that the “Accomplishments” page on GOP.com does not list any accomplishments since 2004 and that a “Future Leaders” page is blank.<\/p>\n
The “Future Leaders” page actually calls for users of the website to submit nominations by email.<\/p>\n
The Republican National Committee, in a statement, said the website will serve as a tool to mobilize grassroots supporters.<\/p>\n
“It will enable our supporters to communicate with each other and organize events both through GOP.com and various social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace,” it said.<\/p>\n
Having lost the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Republican Party is gearing up for the 2010 mid-term elections.<\/p>\n