Quick Hits — February 4, 2008
Mega pre-Super Tuesday edition. Are any Giants-sized upsets coming our way in the political world?
- Update: Concise, insightful Super Tuesday video slideshow overview from CQ, including some great photos and clever graphics. Via PoliticalWire.
- Update: Anti-Illegal Immigration Forces Rally Against McCain. Anti-McCain email goes out to 1.5 million people.
- Update: Drudge takes on both John McCain and Hillary Clinton.
- Update: The Super Tuesday Strategy Review. Using Google Maps to track the candidates and decypher their plans.
- Update: More news on the Obama surge from the Cafe Press primary: “After being nearly tied two weeks ago in weekly candidates sales (Obama at 28%, Hillary at 26%), now as of last week, Obama has surged to account for 48%, while Hillary is down to 19% of weekly candidate sales.” More here, and thanks to John Hlinko for the tip.
- Update: Why Google only tells you what you already know. Do online searchers look to reinforce or challenge their views?
- Update: Is Barack Obama “Dean on steroids”? (Via tPrez)
- Update: Tracking superdelegates via wiki. (Via tPrez)
- Campaigns Experimenting Online to See What Works. Excellent overview article from Jose Antonio Vargas.
- Senate candidates learn the pitfalls of online politics
- Super Bowl Super Tuesday Spots. Note Obama’s geo-targeting, prominent cell phone signup and site URL.
- Does money translate into votes?
- The Smart Mobbing of Super Tuesday
- Hillary Clinton’s Online/Offline Town Hall. She’ll take questions via email, text and video, with Bill and Chelsea (among others) hosting satellite town halls around the country.
- The New Rules of Politics. Karl Rove weighs in.
- MTV/MySpace Postmortem: Change vs. Experience vs. Ron Paul.
- US campaigns go networking on the net.
- Bush asks for $6 billion to fight the terrorists online
- Huckabee Endorses Fire-And-Brimstone YouTube Competitor ‘GodTube’
- Another Ethical Scandal Plagues Novick Campaign. A vicious Wikipedia defacing.
- Obama’s $32 Million Haul. More here and here.
- Republican Presidential Candidates Unleash YouTube Ad War. C.f. Romney’s Latest Ad; McCain’s on the Web.
- Republicans make Fox News sick. “To recap New Hampshire for Fox News: Hannity was pursued by a Republican mob, O’Reilly got into a shoving match with an Obama aide, and CNN grabbed more viewers. Now that’s a week to remember!”
- The Day After. The end of the Edwards campaign, through the eyes of his blogger outreach staffer.
- Move Over YouTube, Here Comes YouBama. “An Obama video becomes an automatic hit on YouTube when it’s uploaded.”
- Genuinely inspired, the Facebook generation is turning out to vote in record numbers. Will they make a difference?
- Moveon Endorses Obama.
- On-The-Ground Organizing. The ‘net can’t do everything.
- Track the ’08 Money Chase
- San Francisco Mayor, A Clinton Backer, Says They’re Going To Go After MoveOn Members
- 3D Electoral College
- Political Attack Ads Easy to Find Online. Getting nasty in North Carolina.
- Check Out Politics Schmolitics. Political humor from Daily Motion.
- Online Boors Ill-Equipped To Assess Political Hotties
- Chicago Tribune suspends comments on political section of website. “But some comment boards seem to attract and enable the vitriolic and brutish; they represent the very worst form of online communication.”
- Democrats Flood States With Ads as Tuesday Nears
- MTV’s Choose Or Lose Taps Local Reporters To Cover Presidential Election. Via tPrez.
- Steve Garfield’s Super Tuesday Coverage Plans With The UpTake. More technology than I can take.
- Google Works to Torpedo Microsoft Bid for Yahoo, and Microsoft fights back.
- Why did the Fred Thompson Blog Work?
- Library of Congress on Flickr
- How to Herd Organic Search Traffic to Your Blog.
- FTC Commissioner Explores Facebook, Makes Friends.
- White House Under Seige? Don’t piss off Google.
- Australia wild party child turns party pro. My teenaged near-namesake uses MySpace to promote a party, 500 “friends” show up and do $20,000 worth of damage. Delanys everywhere are extremely proud. Via my friend Doug McCammon.
– cpd
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