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If Obama's a Mac and Clinton's a PC, McCain is...

chomer — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:58:49 -0400

also a PC...running DOS.

Great videos and I agree on

jayr — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:17:38 -0400

Great videos and I agree on how collecting peoples reactions and comments on important subjects and can really show a politicians true colors, be it on legalizing marijuana, health care iraq etc. Youtube is full of videos all we need now is someone or many people to go through them and create highlight reals. Narconon Vista Bay

One comment on the effectiveness of phones

shimanepdf — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:56:33 -0400

As I've commented previously, robo calls and phone calls in general have reached such an epidemic that most campaigns are doing themselves a disservice.

This came in this evening from a member of the NPDNC in Colorado.

"Mitt Romney and friends called so many times in the two weeks before the primary that I started calling his CO headquarters back. In the end I told them that if he won the Republican nomination I would vote for any Democrat first. I meant it. If you harass me, you don't get my vote, plus I will actively talk against you."

We have 10's of thousands of voters who are saying effectively the same thing about all candidates, not just Mitt.

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Cheers,

Shaun Dakin – CEO & Founder
The National Political Do Not Contact Registry
-- A non-partisan, non-profit program by Citizens for Civil Discourse
Register Your Phone Number Now for Free: http://www.StopPoliticalCalls.org/

another source of yes we can has

Dan Ancona — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:33:31 -0500

I guess it's a sign of an emergent meme when it develops independently in multiple places at about the same time. There's a pic of it in this set (the main focus of which is a sign using some awesome new BlinkM programmable lighting technology that may be of interest to TechPres readers as well)...

http://flickr.com/photos/afightingfaith/sets/72157603852019720/

We're in ur caucuses organizin ur d00dz!

I don't know how old you are...

Xavier Lopez-Ayala — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:24:35 -0500

but I'm 20 and all of my friends LOVED the "Hillary and the Band" video. We thought it was hilarious. Even my Obama supporting friends, most of whom halfway through would turn to me and say "She wasn't really in a band, was she?"

On the flip side, most of us didn't get the "Yes We Can" video. It seems kind of stupid, lost somewhere between song and spoken word.

Obama is sooo 2007

Freedomfighter — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:23:11 -0500

The youngest of voters are at risk for identity politics. Not too surprising but with Obama, his charisma has wiped out substance to the point of becoming parody. Yes! We can join the mob in believing in the audacity of false hope and no change! Yes! We can!

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1712

As for Romney, he lost because is was largely an unknown and had too many competitors. Had some of the competitors been pruned out and then supported Romney, things would be different. Keep your eyes open, from what I understand he has not released his delegates.

Obama Pizza Rap feat. Obama Girl!!

Crunchy — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:47:21 -0500

EVERYONE’s got a crush on Obama… presenting the brand new Obama Pizza Rap featuring Obama Girl:

http://digitalfuntown.squarespace.com/dft-blog/2008/2/4/obama-pizza-rap-...

Obama Pizza Rap feat. Obama Girl!!

Crunchy — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:34:19 -0500

speaking of rapping pizza.... there is ANOTHER one out there!! now he's backing Obama!! AND he got the one-and-only Obama Girl:

http://digitalfuntown.squarespace.com/dft-blog/2008/2/4/obama-pizza-rap-...

McCainism

Freedomfighter — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:04:07 -0500

Excellent post. The reason McCain is going so far is he has made a point of exploiting the media. Such tactics have generated a lot of media coverage for him. The result: NAME RECOGNITION. People don't have to know much about McCain to have some idea who he is and where he has been. Now who the heck names their kid "Mitt"?

But what about the investment?

gibson_stevens — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:12:47 -0500

Great post. Another point to add is how this money is spent. Mark Walsh of MediaPost writes of a new study soon to be released by Borrell Associates that examines 2008 online political advertising. From Walsh's story:

(T)he tiny .5% share of political advertising going to the Internet is well below the 9% chunk Borrell estimates the medium gets of ad dollars overall. It garners at least 5% in all other ad categories, including automotive, travel and health.

This is crazy, especially considering how efficient the social web is for promoting a political idea...

More of my musings...

Good points

ChrisM — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:27:18 -0500

Patrick,

Great stuff. I would suggest you watch Huck's online numbers through Monday for further confirmation of some of your ideas.

Couple of stats:
After the SC vote we raised $1.1 million in six days.

So far after Florida, we have raised $400,000+ and are working towards an additional $1,000,000 by midnight on Monday.

While these numbers pale in comparison to Obama's January haul and Ron Paul's 4th quarter results, Huck's online fundraising has truly fueled his campaign.

Our fourth quarter FEC report shows $6.6 million, $5 million of which we pulled in online.

Chris

hear hear

Zephyr Teachout — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:31:52 -0500

This is a great post.

Zephyr

another great Romney moment

RPmaniac — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:10:48 -0500

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NlIMQ31EjY

Ron Paul's Racism In Serious Doubt

littlebier8 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:05 -0500

Throughout the early 1990s the "Ron Paul Political Report," a small, almost unknown newsletter, published several racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and paranoid articles without any kind of reference to the writer of those words, though the top of the letter contains the words "RON PAUL" in huge block letters. The implication was obvious: that Ron Paul either wrote or supported the views of the articles. But did he? There is a mountain of evidence to the contrary, but countering that is a not so small army of political enemies, mainstream pundits, and several extremely bigoted, angry, and inflammatory letters. My goal is not necessarily to convince to support Ron Paul's views, (in my opinion its the issues that matter) but convince you that he, at very least is the kind, gentle, Christian man that he is. I simply do not want to take one look at the name "RON PAUL" above the racist articles and instantly and permanently believe, "My God, Ron Paul is a bigot!" In that them, here are several responses to these charges.

1. These articles were first made an issue in Ron Paul's 1996 campaign for Representative. His response then, and now, is that these letters were written by a ghostwriter and that he did not edit or publish the letter. He took responsibility for not monitoring and censoring things that went out in his name more carefully. However, this explanation was weakened in some eyes when he refused to release the name or whereabouts of the ghostwriter. Texas Monthly, a Texas magazine, defended his decision to not leak the name of the staffer. More recently, the New York Times Magazine apparently cleared him of involvement when their staff concluded, quote, "He later explained that he had not written the passages himself - quite believably, since the style diverges widely from his own. But his response to the accusations was not transparent. When ...called [upon] to release the rest of his newsletters, he would not." Some argue that he is protecting a confidence and that throwing someone to the media hounds is unproductive and unnecessary.
2. In Texas Monthly's words, "In four terms as a U.S. congressman and one presidential race, Paul had never uttered anything remotely like this." This is perhaps the best argument there is. Never, in any public appearance, in any news conference, in any speech, in anything ever stated publicly anywhere, has he ever said anything so nasty, so unprovoked, so racist, or even anything that might hint that he leaned that way. To date, there is no evidence of any racism of any kind on his part, apart from these letters.
3. The gays. Yes, it turns out that Ron Paul is a Christian. Gasp! even a BAPTIST. But, no, he isn't a gay-hater. He has consistently argued that government has no place in making the people moral. He has defended the civil rights of all groups for twenty years in Congress. He voted against banning gay marriage, although he did vote for a measure to prevent the federal government from interfering with the states' definitions of marriage. He believes that government has no place in the marriage business, and marriage pre-dates government anyway. He thinks that it is a moral decision, and that is not something that he talks about or preaches about.
4. The Jews. This is perhaps the oddest idea ever propagated about Ron Paul. Several of his close associates and mentors are Jewish. Many of his economist friends are Jews. He defends Israel's right to determine their own policies, even when the rest of Congress does not. After being accused several times of being anti-Israel, the NYT Magazine said, "He remains touchy about it. "Even the fact that you're asking this question infers, 'Oh, you're an anti-Semite,'" he told me in June. Actually, it doesn’t. Paul was in Congress when Israel bombed Iraq's Osirak nuclear plant in 1981 and — unlike the United Nations and the Reagan administration — defended its right to do so. He says Saudi Arabia has an influence on Washington equal to Israel's. His votes against support for Israel follow quite naturally from his opposition to all foreign aid. There is no sign that they reflect any special animus against the Jewish state." He advocates leaving Israel to its own devices, but if you think that is anti-Semitic then you are nuts.
5. The blacks and Martin Luther King. There is no chance that Ron Paul is racist. I just don't buy it. He has consistently advocated total economic and political freedom for all people, not based on gender, race, religion, or sexual preference. -Yes, he has publicly opposed interfering with private businesses to make them sell to black people, but let's not forget that the US Government was the number one discriminator against blacks in history. Public busses, publics schools, bureaucracies, and all public facilities were what propagated segregation, and he was a forceful opponent of that. The free market could have worked out the private sector discrimination if the government hadn't encouraged it to begin with. Next, Martin Luther King. Dr. Paul praises King for his stance against violence, his civil rights message, and for "peaceful civil disobedience to effect necessary changes." Next, the Drug War. This idiotic, self-defeating, tyrannical, racist, and utterly despicable movement unfairly and disproportionately targets blacks and other minorities. He favors ending this war to bring peace to these people's lives by respecting them as adults. This, more than anything else being talked about today, will benefit the black communities. Next, his supporters. He has a long history of friendship with many black people personally, and many ardent black supporters today. Polls also show him leading the Republican field in terms of black support. The leader of the Austin, Texas, NAACP recently defended Paul from these attacks, claiming that they are bad attempts to defend the establishment from the "Ron Paul Revolution".
6. My sixth and final argument against these claims is Ron Paul's message on racism, which has been a stated issue on his website from the beginning. He says, "The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights." The full article is available on his website, and other responses to these claims are available in back-issues of magazines, the internet, and his website.
Look, I don't agree with Paul on everything, but it's like I've been saying for years after this "scandal" errupted: no one who is in the least familiar with the man could think that he would say such things. Please, if you feel the need to attack Paul, at least make honest arguments about policy, not rehash already rehashed scandals in an attempt to make a quick buck and sully the reputation of a good guy.

NAACP "Paul not a Racist"

RPmaniac — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:09:27 -0500

NAACP President: Ron Paul Is Not A Racist
Austin NAACP President Nelson Linder, who has known Ron Paul for 20 years,unequivocally dismissed charges that the Congressman was a racist in light of recent smear attempts, and said the reason for him being attacked was that he was a threat to the establishment.
Read full article at: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/011308_not_racist.htm