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The Political Internet Comes Of Age

This is short and to the point. I hope you take the time to follow through on the links. Barack Obama’s campaign, powered by organization and eloquence, created an entity that has never existed before and will be the yardstick for many in the future. h/t to Political Wire.

Obama Raised More than $500 Million Online
Barack [...]

Kick The Auto Industry To The Curb? Another View.

Jeffrey Feldman’s Frameshop is a must read for anyone who want to see thoughtful concepts and ideas about the reading of the day. His post for today is ‘Rust Covered Car Exec’s? Kick ‘em To The Curb’ My comment on his blog follows as I’ve seen some of trouble when a major industry is destroyed.
Jeffrey, [...]

Obama’s Senior Campaign Team Speaks Out (video)

Ninety Minutes after Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Grant Park in Chicago, 60 Minutes sat down with the senior campaign team for an interview. This is fascinating stuff and a very inside look at the campaign.
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Attorney’s Ramping Up A Call Center For Voter Fraud

There is already a call center, manned by volunteers who have been trained by attorneys, taking 1,000 calls a day. They expect 10,000 calls minimum on election day and leading up to election day. This is a non-partisan effort entirely distinct from each campaign. Each campaign will have attorney’s of their own stationed around the [...]

Extraordinary Early Vote In Many States Especially Florida

According to mixed wire reports, there were record crowds at all early voting locations.  Florida was the most active with people were waiting hours to vote. No major problems were reported. A final report of how many ballots were cast won’t be announced untii Monday by the county registrars. All counties, Republican and Democratic, were [...]

International Medical Corps Wins $100K in Amex Member Project

International Medical Corps won $100,00, with our help, that will assist them in continuing child hunger relief projects around the world. Over 14,000 individual American Express cardholders voted for IMC. Thousands of  emails were sent to create a viral impact and 200 blogs, including The Democratic Daily’s article, pitched in to help spread the message.  [...]

McCain Trading In His Character To Chase The News Cycle

That headline comes from a communications professional, Kimberly Krautter, publisher of The Body Politic.
“When the chips are down for a candidate, he often cries foul when his opponent airs an ad that challenges his record and turns the candidate’s words or votes against him. Frankly, in the world of advertising and marketing, that’s considered fair [...]

‘Rednecks for Obama’ Making News

Rednecks for Obama are back in the news again today. I wrote about them back in late August. Here’s the latest:
Tony Viessman, 74, and Les Spencer, 60, got politically active last year when it occurred to them there must be other lower income, rural, beer-drinking, gun-loving, NASCAR race enthusiasts fed up with business as usual [...]

It’s Up To The Women!

Via the Feminist Majority… Watch it:
Get Out Her Vote 2008! And “Vote As If Your Life Depends On It.”

John Kerry Donates 1 Million to the DSCC

You gotta love John Kerry…
Here we are not only in the midst of a critical Presidential and Congressional election season, but now America is in a deep financial crisis. Money is tight for so many Americans right now, but Kerry gets just how important this election is.
So what does Kerry do?
He pony’s up 1 Million [...]

Planned Parenthood Cashes in on Sarah Palin

Planned Parent is cashing in on Sarah Palin as the VP nominee for the Republican Party. John McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin has been a “vocal opponent of abortion,” so pro-choice folks are ponying up to make a statement about Palin’s nomination by donating to Planned Parenthood in her name:
“Make a donation to Planned Parenthood,” [...]

Int’l Child Relief NGO Needs Our Votes…1.5Million At Stake

International Medical Corps “Saving The Lives of Malnourished Children” has been chosen as one of the Top 25 of American Express’ Members Project.  Chosen out of 1,190 projects, “Saving the Lives of Malnourished Children” is now eligible to receive up to $1.5 million in funding. International Medical Corps is one of the Top [...]