Technology has changed the landscape of campaigning. Where buttons used to be the norm, campaigns are now finding new ways to use technology to convey a greater amount of information than "We Like Ike".

One great way to exchange information is with those portable flash drives that are all the rage. They can hold a lot of information, even larger videos, and they'll easily fit in the smallest pocket in your pants.

I like these thumb drives because it combines the old school message on the outside, but also holds a lot of information on the inside. The smallest storage size is 512mb, which will hold a lot of videos and graphics. Probably too much space, in fact, for a single campaign. That's a good thing, because campaigns from the same party could collaborate with one another, splitting the costs while conveying the information for both candidates. Forget the 30-second ad, these Store-It flash drives will hold quite a few 30 minute infomercials.

Pretty much everyone with a computer can use these things, because just about every computer comes with a few USB slots. Wouldn't it be great to have every potential voter carrying around a keychain thumb drive with a candidate or party's slogan laser engraved into it, and the entire party platform on a series of videos inside?