Targeting the Grandma vote
Key quote: "...she urges young Jews to encourage any grandparents who live in Florida to vote for Mr. Obama and to withhold visits to their bubbes (grandmas) and zaides (grandpas) if they don’t comply."
Key quote: "...she urges young Jews to encourage any grandparents who live in Florida to vote for Mr. Obama and to withhold visits to their bubbes (grandmas) and zaides (grandpas) if they don’t comply."
Key quote: "...Mr. Obama's campaign launched a 13-minute Web video outlining Mr. McCain's ties to Charles Keating, a banker eventually sent to prison for his role in a savings-and-loan scandal in the 1980s and early 1990s. Within eight hours, a half-million people had viewed the preview..."
Key quote: "If the US presidential election was being held in cyberspace, Barack Obama would win in a landslide."
Key quote: "McCain may have invented the Blackberry, but today, Obama owns the iPhone, say Portland’s Rick Turoczy who runs Portland’ must read blog, Silicon Florest, a TechCrunch-like website that chronicles the Portland tech scene."
Key quote: "Widespread myths bouncing around the Internet claim Florida voters will be turned away at the polls for wearing candidate garb such as an Obama T-shirt or McCain cap..."
Key quote: "Obama's tech-issues page leads off with a set of bullet points about how he "strongly supports the principle of network neutrality" (though there are no details about what he'd do to make that happen) and opposes media consolidation."
Key quote: "Eric Burns, president of the Web site Media Matters for America, says that "the Internet has leveled the playing field - viral media can have a tremendous impact, not just on political figures, but on the mainstream press as well."
Key quote: "Web sites backing Barack Obama--including his own campaign sites--are generating five times more traffic than those supporting John McCain, according to a new study."
Key quote: "Rather than the YouTube election, the 2008 Obama-McCain race is becoming the text-messaging and email election."
Key quote: "MySpace is partnering with the Commission on Presidential Debates to launch MyDebates.org, a new Web site with interactive tools that allows viewers to "virally engage" in the political process for the upcoming presidential and vice presidential debate series."
Recent Comments