Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Internet: Obama vs. McCain
Above: Obama interviewed by YouTube, answering questions from users.
Both Obama and McCain have made "change" the core of their campaigns, and something has certainly changed already. If Obama wins, he might have the internet and social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace in part to thank for it.
This article provides good analysis on how Obama have boldly gone where no presidential candidate have gone before.
At the time of me writing this, McCain and Obama are desperately appealing for votes. So are their families.
Michelle Obama is blogging at Blogher, "the community for women who blog", effectively reaching out to, well, American women. Her last post is on Halloween, family life, her daughters and her husband.
"I only wish you had a picture of the girls!", "You are good people, Michelle!", "Beautiful family!" and "I can`t wait to have you as First Lady" are among the comments.
McCain`s daughter Megnan, a recent graduate from Columbia University, is blogging for the sake of her dad along with some friends. The aim of the blog is obviously to explain younger voters what a nice man daddy is.
Having read it, it looks like she and her friends had a lot of fun campaigning with daddy and his "crew". It`s also very clear to me that she loves daddy very, very much.
There is obviously also a substantial number of blogs commenting on the candidates. Some interesting, some rediculous. This is a Christian-Conservative rant on why Obama is the devil. This is a rant on why McCain in the White House would prove disastrous. If you`re interested.
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It could certainly be said that this is the first true 'internet election' The Obama campaign especially, with their enormous financial prowess has used the medium of networking sites such as Youtube enormously to their advantage. Youtube has also been used extensively by individuals/parties outside both campaigns to criticise, satirize and support not just the two presidential candidates but also their running mates, particularly Sarah Palin. The enormous influence cyberspace has had on this election will certainly be used as reference for future presidential campaigns.
It's a mindblowing fact that Youtube didn't even exist in 2004, when the last elections were held. And another thing; considering the way most people use Youtube, one could say that it stirs in the confusing mix between information and entertainment that is called US media.
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