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YouTube plays party politics

During the presidential campaigning four years ago, YouTube didn't even exist. Now it's a tool candidates must master to get their message across. CNET's Kara Tsuboi stops by the YouTube upload booths at the Democratic and Republican conventions to find out why Google's video site has such a big presence...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing, News, kara tsuboi, rnc, dnc, youtube, google, obama, mccain, presidents, elections

Videos 2008-09-05

Edwards e-campaign: Spin without substance?

After a New York Times article heralded the Edwards campaign as Dean 2.0, online organizer Erik Os writes in The Hill that Edwards' e-campaign credentials are vastly overstated.Crunching the numbers, Os finds the Edwards campaign coming up short. Edwards raised only $9 million from all avenues in the second quarter...

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Blog posts 2007-08-02

Trippi returns as Edwards adopts a massively Internet campaign

Joe Trippi -- the preeminent name in Internet electioneering -- is back from the desert he occupied when Howard Dean fired him as campaign manager. The New York Times reports that Trippi has slowly moved into center circle of John Edwards' campaign, displacing traditional advisors Edwards relied on in 2004...

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Blog posts 2007-08-01

Republicans shy away from YouTube debate

Are the Republicans running scared of YouTube? So it seems. The Washington Post reported last week that only two candidates â€" John McCain and Ron Paul â€" have agreed to participate in the CNN/YouTube debate, in which candidates respond to user-taped questions.Although many candidates post videos to YouTube, it seems...

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Blog posts 2007-07-31

Thompson uses the Web to claim spot as Republican standard-bearer

Unannounced Republican presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson is using the Web to make sure hard-core Republicans know just where he stands on the issues, the Washington Post reports.Among his messages: The Virginia Tech massacre showed that students should be allowed to carry guns to protect themselves; global warming scientists are...

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Blog posts 2007-07-30

CNN/YouTube debate: world-changing or a bore?

How are we to judge the new debate format which boasted such innovations as a talking snowman questioning presidential candidates about global warming? Reaction to CNN's video-questions-from-voters debate Monday night varied from praise to contempt, reports Wired NewsAs the eight Democratic candidates answered questions from video voters, the pundits were...

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Blog posts 2007-07-25

YouTube lights up with questions for candidates

Can the wacky, populist world of YouTube really influence the presidential debates? Soliciting 30-second video questions, CNN is pawing through more than 1,479 submissions - on subjects ranging from the serious to the absurd - to present at the Democratic and Republican debates,reports the San Jose Mercury News.Only four dozen...

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Blog posts 2007-07-19

County's loss of voting data leads to new election

In another case that puts into question the usability of electronic voting machines, a California judge is likely to order a new election for a Berkeley, CA, ballot initiative that lost due to dubious electronic voting machine data, reports IDG News Service.Judge Winifred Smith of the Alameda County Superior Court...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Elections

Blog posts 2007-07-16

US hosts VoComp to promote open source voting systems

After all the brouhaha over tamper-proof voting machines, the U.S. government has decided to sponsor a competition amongst university researchers to create the best open-source voting system, reports Wired News.The three-day University Voting System Competition in Portland, Ore., July 16-18, has invited teams of researchers from the U.S., Canada, Poland...

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Blog posts 2007-07-16

Inventor of political microtargeting applies his craft for Romney

Alex Gage is the guy who invented microtargeted election campaigning, the trend that sealed Karl Rove's reputation as political wunderkind. Using the wealth of personal data on Americans that's available for a price, the strategy was to use databases to identify Republican voters on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood, even home-by-home basis. In...

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Blog posts 2007-07-05

Hillary's top strategist accused of illegal eavesdropping

Illegal eavesdropping's not just for the NSA and Hewlett Packard. Hillary Clinton's top strategist has now been accused of improperly tapping into a rival's BlackBerry messages, The Washington Post reports.Mitchell E. Markel, a former vice president at the polling firm of Penn, Schoen & Berland, filed a lawsuit claiming his...

Tags: Privacy, Elections

Blog posts 2007-07-03

The verdict on candidates' texting: Obama ahead of Edwards, Clinton coming up lame

What campaign manager could resist technology that reaches more than 75% of Americans? Taking cues from television, presidential hopefuls are using cellphones to text-message voters in much the same way that viewers vote for their favorite American Idol contestatnt, reports the Washington Post.The Obama campaign has jumped on the fledging...

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Blog posts 2007-07-02

Website gathers all things Gore, even as the big guy turns away from politics

Even though Al Gore isn't running for president, he still has a fan club. His fans have made an all-things-Al-Gore website where a user can get continuous news feeds, blog posts, campaign info and so much more, reports Tech PresidentGoreHub.com is a one-stop news portal which has links to sites...

Tags: Web, Elections

Blog posts 2007-06-26

Ron Paul runs a Web 2.0 campaign

In case you are out of the loop, Ron Paul Republican Congressman from Texas, is running for president and he's doing things a little different than usual. Instead of centralizing his campaign around his website, he's using his site as a portal to third-party sites that contain news and video...

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Blog posts 2007-06-25

YouTube hosts a video debate with questions by - you

This presidential campaign will be the most democratic ever, if CNN and YouTube's plans for a new debate forum work out. Wired reports the candidates will be able to participate in a new kind of debate, one where voters will send in video questions for candidates to answer in televised...

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Blog posts 2007-06-18

Blogger's PAC exposes political money laundering

In an ingenious effort to shed light on how political action committees hide the sources of campaign contributions, a blogger has launched his own PAC that offers ways to hide the sources of campaign contributions, reports the Washington Post.A University of Alabama student applied to set up DanPAC, a political...

Tags: Elections, State &, Local Govt

Blog posts 2007-06-15

Redistricting politics - gamer-style

It's not exactly the World of Warcraft, but a group of game developers at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center hope to get a few high-schoolers hooked on an game that sends a message about the world of politics,reports the Washington Post.Although the name could use a polish, The...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Elections

Blog posts 2007-06-12

Dvorak: Web 2.0, Web 1.0, open source irrelevant to pols

All the recent hype about Democrats being more adept than Republicans at utilizing the Internet to further their cause and rally the masses, has PC Magazine blogger John C. Dvorak in a tizzy.No voter, politician or journalist comes out looking highly educated when it comes to the Internet, he says....

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Blog posts 2007-05-23

Dems finally have an advantage - the chaotic back-and-forth that is the Net

Republicans may sit in the White House but they haven't won over the Internet. The Washington Post reportsthat when it comes to Web penetration, Republicans aren't keeping up with Democrats.According to Nielson/NetRatings and other measurements, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, leads the pack on sites such as YouTube, MySpace and...

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Blog posts 2007-05-21

Local politicians struggle to 'get' blogs

While the presidential candidates are rushing around cyberspace, blogging, social-linking and making Second Life appearances, local candidates seem to just be dipping their toes in the bloggy waters - if Fairfax County, Va., is representative of the whole nation (it's not in so many ways but this might be one...

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Blog posts 2007-05-18