Quick Hits — October 6, 2008

• New Obama site ties McCain to Keating with video and text. What was that you were saying about Ayers? Note that an overnight email previewed the video for supporters and encouraged them to spread it around. C.f. Obama Campaign Uses Micro-site To Brand McCain As Peddler Of Criminal Business’ Interests, Guilt-by-Association Response and Obama Camp’s ‘Keating Five’ Slam Against McCain Gaining Traction Online.
• Fake Maureen Dowd email contributes to anti-Obama viral flood, but Palin’s poison to South Florida Jews (also mentions The Great Schlep). C.f. “Nasty” emails in Wisconsin in a ground-game article.
• Grassroots Role in 2nd Bailout Vote — The Secret to Success.
• Registration Gains Favor Obama.
• Why going negative isn’t going to save McCain.
• How do bloggers make money? You find out, you let me know.
• Track the Presidential Polls on Your iPhone.
• Sarah Palin debate flow chart, via War Room
• Tina Fey, twitter, and the Elections. C.f. Twittering the veep debate.
• Congress can Tweet, Follow Them with Capitol Tweets Widget.
• Information Overload during the VP Debate?
• Check out this elaborate StatOil landing page, linked-to from a Google Ad.
• Palin taxes dissected on green-eyeshade blogs.
• RNC Files FEC Complaint Against Obama, Inspired by an Email Smear?.
• Reprise of $1 Million “Obama Minute,” but now with Interactive Times Square Billboard.
• CNN’s iReport perpetrates false Steve Jobs rumor.
• Artful Dodging Trumps Open Evasion. Good politicians dissemble well.
• Supremes Mull Whether Bad Databases Make for Illegal Searches.
• Hashtags: The New New Way to Organize the World.
• Landscaping the cosmos.
• Filipinos Draw Power From Buried Heat. Guess what? The U.S. used to have a world-leading geothermal power program, but the Bush administration shut it down in 2006 and scattered the scientists to the winds. Thanks, guys!

– cpd