Yep

Fred Gooltz — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:32:59 -0400

I agree. Though, as somebody who is kinda partly responsible for JRE's ubiquitous presence on socnets, I do think that Dodd's use of the Citizen Whip VoIP tool was new and good.

Dodd leveraged the platform of his campaign to raise the profile of his signature governing policy beliefs in a way that suited the issue.

He enabled his supporters as well as a much wider universe of issue activists to advocate WITH him.

I'd like to see more of that from electeds and candidates.

"Transactions" win elections not geeky web tools

jnail — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:49:25 -0400

Patrick, your post makes no sense to me. Its a geeky critique of a tool that is for the mainstream web user.

Elections are all about "transactions". Not just money but volunteering, engaging and doing things like getting out the vote, voter registration, getting folks together like House parties etc.

Your reference to the lame McCain Nation is even less sensible. Obama had over 4000 house parties on June 28th and has thousands of volunteers out actually working on voter reg while McCain is just now putting out a social site on the "Internets".

The "GOP toolbar" - that is a joke right?

Your reference to "a well-honed machine run like IBM at its peak, not a hungry, innovative startup" is a bad thing? Elections are won with discipline and focus not some naive startup mentality.

The typical voter has no idea what Twitter is and does not care. They are day to day web users who need basic, simple, easy access and sites need to work for them.

The campaign could clearly update pages more frequently and all sorts of things but most of us use our MY BO page and by now know where to click to get the info we need.

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Yep

"Transactions" win elections not geeky web tools