Posts Tagged ‘presidential’

The "Ron Paul" phenomena

First let me say – I really like and support Ron Paul for the 2008 presidential race…but this is something that I find totally intriguing. It’s a post at Digg.

Urgent! We are NOT going to break Hillary’s $6.2 Mil record

i206.photobucket.com — According to this projection, we are going to raise a little less than 6.2 million dollars. C’mon guys, dig deep and call your friends. A little extra money will result in a huge way the media reacts to this story. Hillary’s record already has been proven fake, but the media keeps spitting that figure out.

This is a post at Digg which is talking about a push to raise money for Ron Paul – and don’t get me wrong…I’m not trying to “ge the word out” about the fund raising.

What blows me away – is in that post there is no mention of Ron Paul, yet people know what the subject is. What other things would this apply to? Interesting.

Hacking Politics

Wired magazine posted this article “Web 2.0 Project Taps ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ to Probe Presidential Contenders” last week and although it seems to have a bit of the youtube debate flavor – it could prove to be very interesting.

The web-hip “community-driven” presidential debates touted by the television networks have been a disappointment so far. The events may use voter-submitted videos, instant messages and e-mails, but all that packet juice is poured into the same old, tired broadcast formula that appoints journalists as the arbiters of which questions candidates are asked — and relies on the usual small circle of pundits to analyze the answers.

We’ll have to keep an eye on it and see where it leads.

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