The Kansas City Area Internets will start serving up winners in 2009!!!

So far, the Internets hasn't really played a big part when it comes to getting people elected locally.

Of course, Obama bought won the election by accepting untraceable donations but the power of the Internets really hasn't been utilized by a local candidate . . . Yes, yes I know some naive dorks were tricked into supporting Mayor Funkhouser but it was really The Star who served up the election for Gloria's bare feet and smudge sticks.

Now things are going to change . . .

In his race for Grandview Alderman, local Libertarian Mike Ferguson is employing a low budget web-based strategy that will likely lead to a victory!!!

The best thing about Ferguson's strategy . . . He isn't counting on the web to do his work for him . . . He's building on the solid rep that he has in his community and supplementing his web presence for big media buys.

Granted: Grandview is dying so it's not like there's going to be a lot of interest in who is the captain of the sinking ship . . . Still, this is going to be the metro's first web-based election win . . . And considering that so many parts of the Kansas City area are headed the way of Grandview, I think we're witnessing the beginning of a trend.

Bonus: Here's a late night photo gallery of Tori Praver from Sports Illustrated to help us celebrate.