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I would LOVE to study Obama's campaign as a retrospect. He did things nobody else ever thought of. He is the first real Internet candidate.
by unalone 18y ago
I would LOVE to study Obama's campaign as a retrospect. He did things nobody else ever thought of. He is the first real Internet candidate.
- clay 18y agoHoward Dean doesn't count?
- unalone 18y agoDean was the first one to realize the Internet could be used. But Obama built up an incredibly powerful campaign force in part by using the Internet to coordinate vast amounts of people.
- mattmaroon 18y agoI think you need to get more than 8 total votes to count. Dean and Ron Paul were both web fads, but Obama used it as an organizational tool and got results from it. Even if he doesn't win, he's forever changed the way campaigns will be run.
- Alex3917 18y agoDean wasn't a web fad, he was leading all the polls until about two weeks before the first primary when he opened his mouth and started saying stupid shit.
- trickjarrett 18y agoI agree, Obama wasn't the first to capture the Internet as an organizational tool, but he did it to a new level and made it a powerful weapon in his arsenal.
- jdavid 18y agoRon Paul was the first. Obama copied much of what he was doing and brought it off line.
- andreyf 18y agoWhat did Ron Paul do that was at all comparable to Obama's my.barackobama.com?
- unalone 18y agoYeah. Ron Paul went viral, but not because of anything he did. Obama beat the two greatest political machines of our age and he did it almost entirely grassroots.
- yummyfajitas 18y agoObama grassroots? I don't think you are using the term correctly. It doesn't just mean "has popular support". Grassroots, as I understand it, is when the movement is not orchestrated, but just springs up around the politician. Ron Paul and Huckabee certainly qualify, but I don't see how Obama does.
- unalone 18y agoI'm sorry. I thought "grassroots" meant something akin to "community organization." My bad! Okay, Obama isn't grassroots. But he has still put together the single most powerful team of volunteers any election has seen. And he's orchestrated a lot of it over the Internet.
- Kaizyn 18y agoCongratulations, go to the head of the class.
- mattmaroon 18y agoNothing at all. Ron Paul was pretty much unknown to everyone who doesn't read Digg.
- timae 18y agoI never understood how the internet crowd moved from Paul to Obama. The two could not be on more opposite ends of the spectrum from an economic theory perspective.