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Last Chance to Ride the Straight Talk Express

All,

I wanted to send a quick reminder that today is the last day to make a contribution to be eligible to win a day on the Straight Talk Express with John McCain. If you can make a donation of $50 or more before midnight tonight, we'll also send you a commemorative Straight Talk Express ticket.

Zephyr Teachout 03/31/2008 - 1:59pm

While web participation is up, so are prison sentences; we need a web campaign to push for felons getting the right to vote.

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Allison Fine 03/31/2008 - 1:55pm

Al Gore just announced a new campaign to $300 million climate change campaign. It’s a very slick website called We Can Solve the Climate Crisis, or We for Short.

At the risk of being totally un-PC for We, I have some problems here (and I’m not talking about the shock of seeing the phrase, “Nobel laureate former Vice President Al Gore” — didn’t I just know him as boring Al?).

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Deadline: Midnight tonight

Friend --

If you donate before midnight tonight, your donation will be part of our March financial report to the FEC.

Why is that important?

This will be the final report before the next series of primaries, and the results will be sized up and interpreted by everyone trying to gauge the strength of our campaign.

Thanks to you, we've won more delegates, more votes, and twice as many states as Senator Clinton.

But this race isn't over yet.

Joshua Levy 03/31/2008 - 11:22am

Data from Compete shows that while Obama's site gets more hits, Clinton's gets more attention; a mayoral candidate in London submits to possibly the first political interview on Twitter; look out for the Wall Tweet Journal's launch in May; California asks citizens to propose solutions to state problems. Are the candidates listening?; Al Gore launches a new campaign -- not for president, but against global warming.

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Micah L. Sifry 03/30/2008 - 3:26pm

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Joe Trippi a week ago, as we both were in DC for the launch of Larry Lessig's new Change-Congress project. (Joe is working with Larry on CC, and the Sunlight Foundation, which I consult for, was co-sponsoring Larry's speech). If you watch closely, you can see Larry in the background of the first video, in fact. In general, the lack of production values suggests I should stick to my day job, I know. But we covered a lot of interesting ground, as you'll see...

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The McCain Update

The McCain Update - March 28, 2008

Next week, John McCain will embark on a "Service to America" tour visiting numerous locations that have played a significant role in shaping who he is today. Throughout the stops, he will introduce himself to the nation through a series of speeches and visits that trace the life of a man indebted to his nation, humbled by the opportunity to serve his country, honored by his family's love and deeply moved by his fellow Americans' courage and sacrifice.

Joshua Levy 03/28/2008 - 12:06pm

The Letter Wars: MoveOn fights a letter from Clinton donors with their own letter; Political Machine is apparently some sort of game about politics. We're not sure; a conversation about Obama and the "digital presidency" is revived on Slashdot; and Mike Gravel is still in this thing, even if YouTube doesn't think so.

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Fred Stutzman 03/28/2008 - 12:02pm

Yesterday's NYT turned its gaze to the patterns of political connection young people are establishing in social media. In an article entitled Finding Political News Online, the Young Pass It On, Brian Stelter describes a techno-political paradigm-shift: young people now turn to the social filter to find political information, as opposed to the traditional "professional" filters of the MSM. Nothing surprising or groundbreaking here, as we're saying the same things about "digital natives" that we've been saying about bloggers for ages.

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Alan Rosenblatt 03/28/2008 - 11:10am

Weighing in at not quite 2 tons of fun, the McCain Girls are tearing up the YouTube charts and shattering a whole lot of eardrums. Are they hip? Do they make John McCain hip? The jury is still out on that.

And while the McCain Girls have racked up more than a half million views in just one week, they are still a good bit shy of the total number times people have watched John McCain sing that old Beach Boy's ditty. Combining the various clips and mash-ups of the ol' hipster singing "Bomb Iran," McCain has been viewed at least 5 million times. More than 1.1 million of those views were of his unedited clip. For my money, though, I prefer Mike Gravel's remake of John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" to McCain's surf band homage:

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