Campaigns increasingly turn to online stores for revenue, targeting voters
As the 2016 presidential race gears up, candidates turn to Internet commerce to boost coffers, widen the small-donor base, collect personal data on supporters and get their campaign message out. Online stores selling all kinds of merchandise is also a good way to gets some digs at opponents. Among the items sold on the Rand Paul campaign website is “Hillary’s Hard Drive,” a joke gift — with a serious $99.95 price tag – part of a number of items intended…