By Denis Campbell
37 Days. I’ve watched folks worry about the state of Obama’s campaign. He has suffered withering criticism and attacks for 20-months from the right and a Greek chorus of Cassandras on the left telling him to be more aggressive and take the fight more strongly to John McCain.
11 times in the debate he [...]
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Let Obama be Obama
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What If It’s Not As Close As (The Media Wants) You (to) Think?
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The infamous Daily Tracking Polls the media treat as Gospel, are missing several chapters. From Gallup to Zogby these polls are of ‘likely’ voters in the upcoming election. A ‘likely’ voter is defined as someone having voted in the last two Presidential elections.
That means the youngest possible poll participant voted in his/her first election in [...]
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
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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