October 30, 2004
Will Youth Vote Decide Election?
There are a handful of swing states that most feel will decide the outcome of this election. However, the youth vote could be equally if not more significant towards tipping the scales.... especially IN the swing states. I’m talking about millions of young voters who will vote for the first time this year.
Clearly Rock the Vote has the most name recognition in the online world for voter registration and advocacy among young voters, but RTV is really just the tip of the youth vote iceberg.
To see what’s going on under the water, check out Youth04 and NewVotersProject. They are just a few of the many Youth Vote projects that are taking advantage of the web to reach young voters.
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October 29, 2004
Protest Songs Of A Wired Generation
The 60's and 70's brought us protest songs about War. The 00's bring us protest songs about waffles.
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Bush, Barney And Secret Emails: ePolitics Buzz Brief
Online fundraising is winding down, last minute online ads are running, and the Internet’s sole political purpose beginning Monday will be GOTV. That and maybe a little scoop journalism.
- I’m highly confused about the new web clip ‘Our Dad’ the Bush daughters are speaking about. I like it but they shouldn’t have used the word obsessed and Barney in the same sentence. I know Americans are dog lovers, but obsessed?
- Did you doubt for a minute that the international world would figure out a way to get passed the GeorgeWBush Foreign Web block? The search engine technology company StrangeLogic.com has made the content available for everyone to view at http://www.GeorgeDeCloaked.com. Also surfers can use anonymizer services such as Anonymizaton.net.
- How about some more humor that so desperately needed in theses last days. EROI and MiniClips have a great collection of politcal humor. Caution: Viewing clips while drinking milk may cause liquid projection through nostrils.
- An interesting article at C|net purposes bloggers will be the first to call the elections, not the media.
- John Kerry sent out and email giving props to his online community. It was a gesture reminiscent of Dean days when Kerry wrote “You and our entire online community have worked wonders throughout this election... Thank you so much for standing with me. I will never forget what you have done.”
- And did you here the one about the Secret GOP e-mails that landed on a Democratic site:
www.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice? Can you believe its caused an ‘investigation’ to be launched?
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October 28, 2004
Online Political Humor
If you need a break from the mudslinging, take cover at About.com’s Election Humor pages.
The Best Humor of Campaign 2004
From JibJab's cartoons to Will Ferrell's Bush shtick to election satire from "The Daily Show" and "The Onion," check out the best political humor of campaign 2004.
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Top 25 E-voting List Compiled
Since we are on the topic of Florida, the California Voter Foundation reports that Miami and Tampa are among the top 25 of the most populous places in the country using e-voting.
The list allows you to easily track electronic voting in this presidential election.
Click here for the full list.
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View From The Sunshine State
Contributing Editor Peter Bearse reports from Florida:
Florida is having enough serious problems trying to implement the early voting feature enabled by changes in its election laws in response to the chaos of the 2000 election. I can't imagine them yet implementing e-voting even if it were enabled by law.
There are long lines and hours of waiting, day after day at every polling place, as hundreds of thousands of people try to vote early. There's also a deluge of absentee votes overwhelming county supervisors of elections and their workers. There are already -- pre-Nov.2nd! -- thousands of complaints about voting eligibility, voting procedures and actions at the polls, and several lawsuits have already been filed. The vitriol and lack of basic courtesy of some of the Democrats demonstrating near the polling stations, heard on the basis of second hand reports from Republican friends who have worked at the polls, is hard to believe.
It's also worth mentioning that Internet connectivity is important to those working at party / campaign headquarters for the sake of being able to do a number of things -- rapidly exchange information among local units, find out where there are shortages of volunteers and campaign materials and how to trade, loan, exchange or otherwise fill the gaps, provide rapid response to problems at polling places, etc.
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Report Says Internet Not An Echo Chamber
There’s a lot to talk about but let’s start out the day with a PEW report, which brings good news concerning ePolitics.
The Internet serves more as a town hall in the United States than an echo chamber as users are more likely to be exposed to a wide range of political views, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
Report
It’s 48 pages of interesting tidbits, but I would suggest putting it off until after the election.
The next post should be from a Contributing Editor who is on the ground in Florida. It’s getting hot!
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October 27, 2004
History Campaign Ads
Did you know Bush senior used TV ads to define Clinton as a flip-flopper? The word wasn't actually used, but the idea was the same as the Bush Jr. defining Kerry effort.
How did I know that?
A group of us at Michigan State have created an innovative online learning environment that features campaign ads and historical clips from 1952 to 2004.
The site is available at http://www.easehistory.org/
EASE History Campaign Ads uses presidential ads as entry points to learn about learn about campaign issues and their historical context, as well as the persuasive techniques and strategies that are part of political campaigns.
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Dubya Dubya Dubya: ePolitics Buzz Brief
President Bush still has a stronger web presence than Senator Kerry, but all the attention is not so favorable.
- The Bush campaign website was hacked yesterday, and overseas visitors were denied access to the site. However, these two instances might not be related.
- Bush finally answered the internet-spread bulge question. His answer “a poorly tailored shirt.” Note to tailors: to prevent puckering, follow the seams when sewing foreign objects into shirts.
- According to the IHT, foreigners might not prefer Bush as commander in chief, but they can’t get enough of him on the internet
- A Bush bashing Web Parody set to the tune of ‘Monster Mash’ is the latest animated political-jab on the web.
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October 26, 2004
Video Voter
On Monday, the Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) launched a new national campaign to improve voter information with the release of "Video Voter: Producing Election Coverage for Your Community" and its companion website, www.videovoter.org. The publication and website offer government access cable TV channels, public access producers, cable TV local origination and Video-on-Demand systems, digital TV stations and others step-by-step guidelines on how to create and distribute unedited video coverage of candidates and ballot measure campaigns in their own communities.
The Video Voter Guide helps producers to code their election programming for capture by Digital Video Recorders (e.g., TiVo), negotiate carriage by Video-on-Demand cable TV systems, and create their own websites to archive on-demand election programming for Internet viewing in homes. The website
(www.VideoVoter.org) provides up-to-date programming and legal information together with downloadable forms (releases, candidate instructions, etc.).
[SOURCE: Center for Governmental Studies Press Release]
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October 25, 2004
Bush VS Kerry: ePolitics Buzz Brief
8 days to go and BC’04 seems to be coming on strong online.
- For some laughs - Political Bohemian Rhapsody. Another funny online animation making fun of both candidates set to the tune of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Just like JibJab?
- The BC’04 website is chatting it up with some all-star chats this week, among them the Bush daughters.
- BC'04 senior advisor and strategist Tucker Eskew has also started a blog TuckerEskew.com.
- The RNC is going mobile with - Election Mobile Alters. Election Day alters will be sent to your phone
- There is an email circulating that John Edwards is personally responsible for the flu vaccine shortage in the U.S.
- SaveAmericanMedicine.com also has a bone to pick with Edwards
- Meanwhile Kerry is enlisting the support of former President Bill Clinton for emails and appearances.
This may see one-sided, but the simple fact is that Bush won on the web-buzz-o-meter today. However some anti-Bush websites did get some traffic worth noting, including the 7 Bush Cousins who Launched a Pro-Kerry Website.
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Top Ten Reasons America Needs Better Voting Technology
10. "I Voted" stickers won't hold up in court.
9. A constitutional crisis can ruin your whole week.
8. Yeah, like no one's ever stuffed a paper ballot box.
7. Accountability is better than recountability.
6. Few county officials have the 212,234 fingers needed for a real hand count.
5. No one's calling for a return to typewriters.
4. Friends don’t let friends use paper ballots.
3. You absolutely, positively, have to know your vote counted.
2. A vote is a terrible thing to waste.
1. At some point, we have to know who really won.
Brought to you by VoteHere, Inc.*
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October 21, 2004
Decision 2004 Is Down To Three Choices
Somewhere in America a blogger woke up this morning knowing he would soon have to make a decision that might eventually decide the fate of his country. With all the chaos in the world it’s not an easy decision; but he, like millions of others, basically has only three choices. Will he choose a rightwing corporate, a middle of the road advocate that “looks out for you”, or a comical looking guy with good hair?
That blogger has a duty like millions of other Americans, and today his decision was not an easy one. Bless the poor man’s heart for I know he labored over his decision... when he chose to write about Sinclair, Bill O’Reilly, or Jon Stewart.
It’s a hard decision, but freedom of choice is what makes the United States so great. Do America proud and blog on patriots!
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October 20, 2004
PFA vs. DFA... Fight: ePolitics Buzz Brief
Hold on tight, less than two weeks left. Here’s what’s happening today on the web:
- Progress for America is running a very emotional new ad Ashley’s Story, which includes a new website.
- Democrats.com is offering a $1,000 reward for “Solving the Bush AWOL Mystery.” If sleuthing is your game, solving the Elvis Mystery will get you $100,000.
- Dean’s Democracy For America is trying to put its first ever TV ad on the airways, which urges Americans to Retire Tom Delay. As you might image, an accompanying website goes with the ad.
- The largest online mock youth election in the nation can be found on the Youth Leadership Initiative website.
- Sinclair has changed plans on how it will air 'Stolen Honor'. There's plenty of talk on this in the blogosphere, but leftist-groups on the web aren't taking credit for the quasi-victory for the move. It must not have that Rathergate type appeal.
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October 19, 2004
Expert Interview With Michael Cornfield
Now Available at PoliticsOnline - Interview with Michael Cornfield
Michael Cornfield is an internationally renowned political scientist for the Institute for Politics, Democracy, & the Internet and professor at George Washington University. Cornfield talks with David Abel of PoliticsOnline about his latest report on online political ads in the 2004 Presidential Elections and how ePolitics is changing campaigning.
Click here to listen to and or read the interview.
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October 18, 2004
Stars And Stripes Forever
From Bob Pyke- AND NOW FOR TODAY'S SITE... Stars and stripes forever
There's a gazillion Web pages out there, so it's not easy to find
relevant information. Google is arguably the best search engine
available right now.
One thing Google does exceptionally well is help weed out the
junk. It has a number of specialized searches that focus on
relevant information.
The Uncle Sam search will help you find anything related to the U.S.
government. I thought this would be useful, since we're so close to
Election Day.
TO VISIT THIS SITE, GO HERE:
http://www.google.com/unclesam
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October 15, 2004
What About The Bush Cabinet?
This just in from Dal LaMagna at Progressive Government:
The debates are over. We know more about Bush and Kerry than we want to. What about the appointees? We have an incredibly comprehensive model of the Bush Administration on line at www.progressivegovernment.org
He's right. It is comprehensive.
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October 14, 2004
Internet Helps Foreigners Influence US Elections
This is the first I’ve seen of the globalization of citizens’ activism in other countries to impact the U.S. elections in a significant way.
In the last few days the U.K.'s Guardian has been setting up Operation Clark County. It is a way for U.K. citizens to have an impact in the U.S. presidential elections.
By typing your email address into the box on this page, you will receive the name and address of a voter in Clark County, Ohio. You may not have heard of it, but it's one of the most marginal areas in one of the most marginal states: at the last election, just 324 votes separated Democrats from Republicans. It's a place where a change of mind among just a few voters could make a real difference.
For another example take a look at this story on Norwegian citizens buying adds in US media against Bush.
The Norwegian site in English.
I am in search of pro-Bush examples, but so far all the cases I've found seem to be anti-Bush.
Also check out The World Votes.
More to come...
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Debate Recap, Indymedia Ticked
Debate Quotes - I love this stuff.
Bush campaign email: “President Bush won a clear victory on substance, style and credibility in the final debate tonight - showing that he's the candidate who ‘finishes strong.’”
Kerry campaign email: “Once again, I am about to head over to the "spin room," and once again I am going to have the chance to talk about a victory for John Kerry.”
To watch the full debate Click Here.
For complete coverage of the debate visit E-Vote.com’s Debate Briefing.
Was the FBI seizure of Indymedia computers in the U.K. election related? The servers have been returned but Indymedia is still P.O.’ed and questions remain.
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October 13, 2004
Sinclair Watch: ePolitics Buzz Brief
Random ePolitics news you should find interesting:
- Sinclair Broadcast Group's decision to air "Stolen Honor" on local programming has activists and the Democratic Party reeling. Free Press has started a website, www.sinclairwatch.org.
- The official NRA has a campaign site for the election season “loaded with all of the critical information you'll need to make informed decisions on Election Day, November 2.”
- Washington Post has a growing section for the electronically paranoid: 'A Massive Experiment' In Voting. I highly recommend it.
- The Catholic Voting Project has a voter quiz to help voters find which candidate they might allign regarding issuses such as stem cell research, nuclear weapons proliferation and immigration policy.
- Kerry is using the internet to drum up supporters with “Phone Corps”, while pollsters worry that callers are going out of range, with many ditching land lines.
- Meanwhile Patriot Petitions’ online petition for Indictment of John Kerry for treason reached its target of 150,000 signatures in September. It will soon be presented to Dick Cheney.
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Internet: End of the "Wild West"?
Is the Party Over?
The FEC is beginning to ponder regulating political communication on the internet.
Click here for more.
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October 12, 2004
Is The Draft Rumor Over?
From a subscriber:
President Bush said in the debate (last) Friday night, "I hear there is rumors on the internet that we're going to have a draft."
Where is all that chatter on the net about the draft coming from?
One source is from Congressman Tim Ryan's (D-Ohio) use of FedNet's reClip service to post his impassioned floor speech on the draft to his website.
http://timryan.house.gov/HoR/OH17/Hidden+Content/Floor+Speeches.htm
Some of the blogs are long so (Ctrl-F) search for Ryan to get to the point.
Dailykos
MyDD
Gadflyer
Prospect
Majority Report
Ohio Count Down 2004
Hoffmania
Steve Gilliard
See The Forest
The left Coaster
Democratic Underground
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October 11, 2004
Bulge Remains, Cyber Chief Change: ePolitics Buzz Brief
Here's what's buzzing at the ePoltics exit on the Information Superhighway.
- Bush was bulging again at the second debate and Internet rumors are still flying, questioning what he’s packing.
- Other web chatter is over a decision by TV station group Sinclair Broadcasting to air a pro-Bush documentary.
- The Vote For Change tour wraps us tonight at 6:30PM EST. The unprecedented concert will be accessible to millions via a live webcast entitled “National Anthem: Inside the Vote for Change Concert Tour.
- It only took a week for the U.S. to hire a new Chief of Cyber-Security.
- The Gallup Poll has launched a free daily Web newscast, an eight-minute video featuring pollster-in-chief Frank Newport as a stand-up anchor talking about the firm's latest polling data and what it reveals about current events.
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October 08, 2004
Bush Mystery Bulge
I was going to award the ePolitics Headline of the Week to Wired for: Prof Pursued By Mob Of Bloggers, but Salon has taken the cake with: Bush's Mystery Bulge. The article is about the latest rumor flooding the Internet, alleging President Bush wore a wire during the last debate.
From Wonkette: In any case, Salon has seen fit to pick up the story and the Media Channel even got poor Mark McKinnon to go through the trouble making a statement about it:
I love this. Am tempted to say, 'I cannot confirm or deny,' and let the story get some legs. Or, how about, 'Since we put the metal plate in his head, we have had some measure of success with audio transmissions to the President.' Or, 'Yeah, but it clearly broke down during the debate.' Unfortunately, the truth is not nearly as interesting. The answer is, 'The President has never been assisted by any audio signal.'
I personally think it’s a girdle or a bulletproof vest, or maybe just maybe a flotation device if things get totally nuts. I know! It's a transmitter that allows Bush to issue a draft from any location.
For more conspiracy check out www.isbushwired.com .
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JibJab Joke & MoveOn Mess up: ePolitics Buzz Brief
- JibJab, the creators of popular election parody "This Land" released a sequel yesterday titled "Good to Be in D.C." The animation features Bush, Kerry, Cheney, and Edwards singing along to the classic American folk song "Dixie."
- DNC has launched a new website for the Kerry campaign as part of its ongoing out reach to people of faith: KerrySharesOurValues.org
- A new Harris poll finds interest in the elections has fueled the growth of using the Internet for news. Just over half of online U.S. adults (52%) (i.e., 38% of all U.S. adults) say that they rely on the Internet for information about politics, political issues and elections.
- Cheney might have had a slip of the tongue at Tuesday’s debate (FactCheck.com), but WSJ’s Opinion Journal tells of a recent email in which MoveOn had a slip of the fingers, claiming Edwards would not let Cheney get away with saying al Qaeda was linked to 9/11.
From an e-mail by Eli Pariser of MoveOn.org:
We're on a roll. In last night's vice presidential debate, Dick Cheney was angry, misleading and petulant; Edwards took him on with warmth, clarity and the facts. CBS News reported this morning that Edwards "continued the Democratic ticket's winning streak," beating Cheney by 13 percentage points in a post-debate poll of uncommitted voters.Again and again, Cheney tried to mislead the public about the war in Iraq and our economic problems here at home. He even claimed that he'd never met Edwards before when he had, in public, twice. But John Edwards wouldn't let him get away with it: when Cheney tried once again to link al Qaeda and 9/11, Edwards said, "Mr. Vice President, you are still not being straight with the American people," and explained that there was absolutely no connection.
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October 07, 2004
A Blogger, Dean and Spoiler: ePolitics Buzz Brief
- In a first for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the group is using a blogger to raise funds to help elect Democrats to the House of Reps. Duncan Black, aka Atrios, who runs the blog "Eschaton," wrote a fundraising email letter to DCCC supporters yesterday.
- Although Republicans killed a bill yesterday to squelch draft rumors circulating on the Internet, Howard Dean wont’ let the idea die. A Dean email is circulating saying “the draft has already begun” since active duty soldiers who finish their commitments are being forced to stay in. Supporters are encouraged to visit the DFA website to sign a “No Draft” petition.
- In an odd twist, the Ralph Nader campaign website is pushing SPOILER t-shirts and playing cards that turn the tables with quotes like "Revolutionaries always spoil corrupt systems."
- Since Dick Cheney’s mention of factcheck.org (he actually said factcheck.com) in the VP debate, the site has been flooded with visitors. The site loads slowly and has been knocked off line several times because of traffic. However, the site does appear to have a new look (check my facts on this), which could also explain the problems.
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October 06, 2004
Winners, Killers & Bloggers: ePolitics Buzz Brief
-- After reading campaign emails from Bush and Kerry, it is absolutely clear who won the Veep debate last night.
Bush email: "Vice President Cheney won the debate last night"
Kerry email: "We're two for two"
Both campaigns are still heavily pushing supporters to take part in online polls.
-- In an effort to kill Internet rumors House Republicans killed a draft bill Tuesday. The bill, HR163, would have required that all men and women ages 18 to 26 serve at least two years of military or civilian service.
"The reason we're doing this is to expose the biggest hoax in show business," said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-San Diego, who chairs the House armed services committee.
"The hoax has been carried out through the Internet, where millions of young people are being scared by some anonymous tipster."
-- Italian ePolitics are fantastico
We recently told you about the Italian twin of Matt Drudge - Roberto D'Agostino and his website Dagospia. While his site is quite the rumor mill, Italy has a serious side to ePolitics as well. PoliticsMatters a collective blog of PoliticaOnline launched yesterday. The blog focuses mainly on Italian politics, but will also look at U.S. and worldwide grassroots activism.
The BBC also reports the fashionable city of Milan has become the staging area for a new breed of online social protests.
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Online Polls Flooded after VP Debate
Not that they scientifically matter but online polls asking who won were once again besieged tonight by Dems - largely because of an email to activists and online ads.
Both the Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio.com) and The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philly.com) online polls with similar links were inaccessable at this time.
CNN.com switched its online polls from "Who won?" to "Did the VP Debate sway your vote?" at this point.
Online polls certainly are not an accurate measure of who won the debate, but it is a sure sign of online activism. Maybe not the most effective...now only if the campaigns could only raise money by click-throughs!
Also saw Edwards vs. Cheney post debate online ads by the DNC on Washington Post, CNN, and National Journal.com - Saw one RNC fundraising ad on Fox News. There was a George Soros ad too. Let us know if you saw any others.
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October 05, 2004
Debates: Online Ads & Spin
After the debates, the tactics to control the online spin not only involved cranking up online polls and flooding news programs' inboxes, but it also spilled over to some pretty large online ad buys.
Click here to read.
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VP Debate and NK Hackers: ePolitics Buzz Brief
-- It appears Bush-Cheney’04 learned something valuable from last week’s debate - Never underestimate the power of online spin. Dems clearly controlled the post-debate online buzz, resulting in most thinking Kerry won the debate.
In an email this morning, the BC04 campaign asked supporters to utilize the web to “fight the spin” by participating in online polls, forwarding the email on to five friends, and directing undecidedes to the campaign website.
-- Dems are also copying a Bush tactic used by a the campaign a few weeks ago, by encouraging voters to use their online service to vote absentee. Powered by Votenet’s Election Impact, the Dems' new feature enables supporters to find information on how to request an absentee ballot. Bush’s absentee ballot form is a little more eye pleasing than the Dem’s, but annoyingly also forces the voter to fill out personal fields before receiving the ballot information.
-- Meanwhile U.S. cyber-security needs to get its act together considering a new report uncovers that North Korea has trained more than 500 computer hackers capable of launching cyber warfare against the United States, South Korea's defense.
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October 04, 2004
Online Ad Bust: ePolitics Buzz Brief
-- A Pew Study released today reports meager spending on web ads by political campaigns. The report leaves one wondering why politicos aren’t utilizing the web. Not too long ago research from PQ Media projected that online spending for political ads will be $25.3 million in 2004, up 853.8 percent from the 2000 election.
-- Is U.S. cyber-security receiving the attention it deserves? Recent legislation to give the agency more clout by moving it under White House control was squashed. Then National Cybersecurity Chief Amit Yoran resigned last Thursday, frustrated with the lack of importance placed on cybersecurity at DHS.
-- Dems were successful in managing the message online after Thursday’s Presidential debate. According to CBS news media websites were bombarded with post-debate spin. The online advocates affected unscientific poll results and also managed to tick off a journalist at the Chicago Tribune after he received over 200 emails talking up Kerry.
Across the Pond
-- U.S. Jobs are not the only thing being out-sourced to India - India Times reports that Hate Sites are setting up shop there as well.
Check out the stats: Hate and violence websites have grown 300 per cent from 2,756 in 2000 to 10,926 in 2004. It grew 30 per cent in 2003. What’s more, the number grew by 26 per cent in the first four months this year – from 8,667 to 10,926, says a study by SurfControl, a mail-filtering firm.
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October 01, 2004
Debate Recap: ePolitcs Buzz Brief
- Online Political Humor might be just as popular as online analysis of the debate according to an AP article.
- The New York Times' interactive analysis of the debate is probably the best freely available on the web.
- Liberal Bloggers say Conservative Blogggers say Bush Sucked. Go figure.
- A CNN article writes “the Bush and Kerry camps have set rapid response teams to spin the debates over the Web as they happen and in the media frenzy afterward.” I haven’t seen the RR yet, maybe because nothing shocking came out of the debate except that Kerry came out the winner among Uncommitted Voters in an online CBS News poll.
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