Or does it? Barack Obama’s campaign team has mastered the Internet for fund raising. Now they want to use it to get out the vote in 10-weeks’ time? Obama’s ground game has been proven legendary with volunteers going door-to-door street by street to get out the vote. His field operation dwarf’s John McCain’s and can [...]
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It Takes Social Networking to Elect a President
Posted on 26 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1 million members/friends, 9 million times, action, age sensitive, blowback, blowback tipping point, blowhard idiots, Business Week magazine, calls made to voter lists, campaign team, convergence of web, daily e-messages, Deaniacs, did not register to vote for the primary in February, dogma specific groups, dramatic, Elect a President, Election Day, embarrass your “friends” into activity, events hosted, extreme, Facebook, Facebook friends, field operation dwarf’s McCain, flame, funds raised, get out the vote, grade of between 1 and 10, ground game, Howard Dean, huge, iVillage, Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you shou, likely voters, mastered the Internet for fund raising, MyBarackObama.com, MySpace, obama, Obama Girl, online trenches, opine, other platforms, peer pressure vehicle, personal activity index, personal interest, phone, piss off those already in the house, push, SMS text messages, Social Networking, strategists, street by street, television, text message their friends, the tipping point, to be contrary, trolls, Twitter, University Democratics, upside dow campaign, viral group, viral videos, volunteers going door-to-door
A Campaign as Business
Posted on 25 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $20 million dollar personal debt, $500 million dollar business, 19-months, 2 million people raising millions of dollars $96 a time, 57-locations, asked good questions, Bill Gates’ Foundation’s, Business Week magazine, Campaign as Business, campaign out of money before he secured the nomination, can Obama lead, choosing his Vice Presidential running mate, Clinton supporters, community organiser, e-mail addresses, executive decision, field organisation, good CEO, GSM technology, Howard Dean, internet, Joe Biden, knee-jerk nor rushed, listened to input, McCain, mindless tax cuts, new fund-raisers, new media, obama, party consultants, pinpoint and find areas of greatest need to target spen, planning protests, pragmatic, Republican attacks, run up enormous debt, sided with a President, special interest money at arm’s length, special interests, state legislator, technical strategist, thoughtful, tried to run traditional campaign, US economy, VP announcement, war entered into under false pretences, young people
The question many undecided voters ask is can Obama lead? They point to his time as community organiser and state legislator as not being ready for national office because the ultimate choice must run a multi-trillion dollar US economy in some trouble.
For 19-months Senator Obama has led a $500 million dollar business in 57-locations, convinced [...]
Good Feeling’s Gone
Posted on 07 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 miles wide and 10 inches deep, 18 million votes, 4-more years, 527 groups, ads, ads so vile they are now in the Republican arsenal, Al Gore, Anglerfish, are too Democratic, attack ad machine, base is 10, because what’s at stake here is bigger than any one of, bitch slap, black community, burning through his fingertips, Bush = McCain, Bush fatigue, cathartic for the entire party, chum for the hungry masses and media sharks, clinton, conservative half, Countdown, delegates heard, democratic party, Democrats Abroad, do this, economic fatigue, EVERYONE has a bloody voice, everyone is toeing party line, Finding Nemo, flower children, general doom and gloom, get back in the line, get over themselves, Good Feeling’s Gone, good for Obama, group therapy, hates John McCain as nominee, her name should be placed in nomination, Hillary and Bill back to reality, Howard Dean, it’s about winning the damned election, Keith Olbermann, kow-towing to the Clinton’s, live in state of fear of upsetting, living in cloud-cuckoo land, machines. Tiananmen Square, Marlin, money is flowing, narcissistic ways, NBC Political Director Chuck Todd, Never bring a knife to a gunfight, no one dares upset anyone, nobody told you to go $20 million in debt Senator, now want everyone to pay for them, obama, on board, pay your money, polarisation in the nation, policy issue setbacks, preparing for 2012, Republican Party, RNC, run them over, should portend a Democratic landslide, special comment, study it further, stunt, Supreme Court justices, tabled every action, take a decision, take the mantel of leadership, the party will never forgive her, they know how to win elections, walked out of meeting wondering why we bothered coming, war fatigue, we’re too busy explaining our feeling, when the Democratic Party is divided they lose election, why should I support after the party after what they di, will backfire, won only three Presidential elections in the last 40-ye, you attacked Obama, you did that yourself
This line was uttered by Marlin the Daddy clownfish searching for his son in the film ‘Finding Nemo’ when he comes to the realisation that the light in the depths of the ocean he has been dreamily following is the lure of an Anglerfish. Barack Obama must feel the same way when a YouTube video of [...]
She United and It Feels So Good
Posted on 28 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bob Barr, democratic party, DNC chairman. Al Gore, Grover Norquist, he’s Kerry with a tan. racist comment, Howard Dean, John McCain, Libertarian/conservative votes, Nader, New Hampshire Clinton, obama, Olbermann, Republican, Ross Perot, Unity
Olbermann said it first. More than a bad pun, the Democratic Unity, New Hampshire photo-op happened yesterday. Newshounds desperate for a story angle spoke of backstage tensions between their handlers or jumped briefly on trivial Republican, Grover Norquist’s “he’s Kerry with a tan” racist comment, until they saw who said it. To listen to pundits [...]
Denver, Sioux Falls, Billings, San Juan… Aboooaaarrd!
Posted on 31 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 50-state campaign, Bill Clinton, By laws committee, change, clinton, Democratic Primary wind down, Denver, Hope, Howard Dean, internet, Mark Penn, Michelle Obama, Michigan and Florida, Montana, obama, Puerto Rico, Raock Star appeal, Rush Limbaugh, South Dakota, Super Tuesday, wander off the reservation, White Voters Outside Appalachia, WVOA
The Democrat Primary local heads this weekend to a crucial (yawn) convention by-laws committee meeting that seems certain to have the thrill and impact of a wet firecracker vs. Hillary’s much feared nuclear option of three weeks ago. The Michigan and Florida delegations will be seated but with a 50% penalty and the delegates split [...]
I’ll Go Away, No… Wait A Minute
Posted on 28 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Al Gore, career meltdown, clinton, Company, Elaine Stritch, George Furth, Go Away No Wait a Minute, Howard Dean, last primaries, Lorrie Morgan, obama, Stephen Sondheim, super delegates
I felt today a cross between Bobby, the unmarried suffering star of the 70’s hit musical Company and country singer Lorrie Morgan, who sang the 1998 country music hit ‘Go Away.’ The “I’m conceding, no I’m not” antics of the Clinton campaign today have been tragic to follow. Bobby struggled though George Furth’s 11 scatological, 1-act plays set [...]
Nuclear Options Have Unpredictable Fallout
Posted on 22 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: clinton, Convention, delegates, Democratic National Committee, DNC Chairman, Florida, Howard Dean, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, nuclear option, obama, rules and bylaw committee
We wrote about the so-called “nuclear option,” Senator Hillary Clinton is hoping to invoke during the 31 May Convention Rules and By-Law committee meeting. Simply, she wants to use her 13-supporting delegates to push through the seating of the entire Florida and Michigan delegations at full strength.
Florida and Michigan did not play by party rules [...]
Hillary’s Nuclear Option
Posted on 06 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bylaws and Rules Committee, clinton, Democratic Convention, democratic primaries, Denis Campbell, Harold Ickes, Howard Dean, nuclear option, obama, Spin and Lies, US politics, vadimus post
No we’re not talking about her threat to wipe Iran off the face of the earth if they attack Israel. This nuclear option is her plan for winning the nomination at the convention in Denver.
Simply, the plan under wraps and labelled “secret” at Hillary HQ is a page out of former advisor to her husband’s [...]
Please Make it Stop!
Posted on 05 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: ABC News, Bill O'Reilly, clinton, democratic primaries, Denis Campbell, federal gas tax suspension, FOX News Sunday, Frank Schaeffer, George Stephanopoulis, Howard Dean, media bias, Meet the Press, negative ads, New York Times, obama, Paul Abrams, photoshopgate, Real Clear Politics, Reverend Wright, Spin and Lies, The HUffington Post, Tim Russert, US politics, vadimus post
Citizens of Indiana and North Carolina, please help stop the madness”. Only you can give us our lives back and stop the death spiral of the Democratic Party. You’ve had your 15-minutes, please find a way to stop the insanity. Until tomorrow, or June, or September we feel obligated to present “He Said, She Said” the [...]
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