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Leave politics aside for the moment, and just consider the beauty of this application.

The problem: You need to get millions of people to vote for you in an election. 

While on vacation, I used my phone for surfing the web. Each morning I check the weather, the news, stuff like that.  While away, I used my phone to do this.

So let's compare two news sites: The Washington Post and CNN, regular formats, and the Post and CNN, mobile formats.

NOTE: Yes, the Post is a newspaper while CNN is a cable news channel, so the comparison isn't absolutely perfect. But it's pretty good.

I just returned from vacation. I am thrilled to report that I did not turn my laptop on until the very end... but yet, I checked my email every day.

I have a Palm Treo 755P phone, and a nationwide Sprint "all you can eat" plan with unlimited calls, text messages, and data transfer. I decided to give it a workout while I was away.

The best part was that I always had a cell signal, wherever I was staying, and so I could always check my email for free.  Not true for a WiFi signal, which always seemed to cost something to access (unless I wanted to take a piece of vacation to go to a library or an internet cafe, which was not a high priority).