An account of a tele-townhall meeting
I keep hearing about these. Thanks to inMuscatine for live-blogging it. I am convinced that this is part of Romney moving numbers in Iowa.
Campaigns versus movements 2
Patrick Ruffini wrote an interesting post about, what he called, different modes of activism. I thought that he was arguing that the online left was unfocused, and that it was hard to convert to GOTV, which was where the rubber really meets the road. I responded and argued that there Read more
Movements versus campaigns and parties
Patrick Ruffini argues that the GOP has the right model for online activism: I can sing chapter and verse on why our model was better. Lateral communications (or community building amongst supporters) is a worthwhile goal in itself, but often gets confused with what it takes to do GOTV in Read more
Ron Paul Diggers think they “won”
Wow. Check this out: Hey, Diggers. This conservative blog is lying about Ron Paul in two ways: 1. It says Romney won the text message vote (Fox News is lying about this as well). 2. It says Ron Paul was crushed by Guiliani’s answer. This blog allows comments, so let Read more
What the “Left’s New Machine” has to teach the right
A number of people have asked me what I think of Jon Chait’s TNR article, "The Left’s New Machine." Here are my thoughts. I just finished reading Kos and Armstrong’s Barbarians at the Gates this morning. So I may merge some thoughts together. First of all, this has tended to Read more
Majority Accountable Project
Last week, I wrote about the Dems use of technology. On Tuesday, I learned about the Majority Accountability Project. One of the people at that presentation said something to the effect of, "This is the first good idea that narrows the gap between the right and left online." I think Read more
More on technology and the right
David All, Michael Turk, and Patrick Ruffini, have all weighed in in the latest round on technology and the GOP. David is a web 2.0 proponent. Michael has a different take: This is illustrative of a larger problem the GOP has. This is where I part with David on his Read more
The blogosphere, Obama, and the media
Marc Ambinder writes, in response to Matt Yglesias, that Hillary Clinton is "not doomed! Yet!" and discusses her relationship with the blogosphere. The fundamental question is "does Hillary’s failure to catch on in the lefty blogosphere mean that she is doomed." Marc describes one way of answering the question: In Read more
Another take on the right and the left online
Since I am relatively new to politics online, although neither politics nor technology, I followed the conversation last week between Patrick Ruffini, Rob Bluey, David All, Michael Turk (here and here), and Matt Stoller, with comments from Conn Carroll, with interest but I did not jump in. But between that Read more
YouTube: IED’s of Presidential Politics
What a great title. Though, I have to say, they don’t get the positive part of it very well. Only the stupid negative that the GOP bloggers have been doing so far.