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A Brave New World

Posted by Little Miss Know it All

March 20, 2007 |

First, I want to stop and welcome all our new visitors.  We are glad to have you here!  Stop and stay a spell, and be sure to let us know what you’re thinking about these days.  We really want to know…and welcome the lively debates you bring. 

Now, to the new realities of campaigning in 2007… 

In the world of political campaigns, managers, candidates and communication directors spend months creating a finely tuned image, manipulating words, appearances and nuances so that a certain image is portrayed.  Well, in today’s world of viral videos, that is being turned on its head, giving every spin doctor nightmares.

Someone commented and asked what do we do to remove money from dominating politics?  Well, I doubt there’s much that can be done legally, but viral video and average citizen participation is the best thing we can do.  As the average American gets involved and votes, money has less of a role.  Because you can raise billions of dollars, but if people don’t vote for you, well, you still don’t get elected. 

But getting average people to care and get active is an age old battle.  Just how do you get Joe-Six-Pack off the couch and interested in the difference between Hillary and Obama or Rudy and McCain?

Anyway, will viral video make a difference in this campaign cycle?  Little Miss Know it All is betting it will.  Some candidates’ stars will rise, while others may fall, based on videos they have no control over.

So let’s take a tour of viral video in today’s races.  Let’s start with Guiliani in drag and Trump picking him up… or the morph of the famous Apple/Big Brother ad featuring Hillary as Big Brother…or this video spoof of Edwards and his perfect hair.  Youtube is Biden’s worst nightmare, as every flub or stupid thing he has said  (did he just brag about coming from a former slave state and then make a semi-racist joke about Indians to an Indian American?!?) continues on in immortality….

And for Myspace, a new, wide open forum (and also uncontrollable in some ways) for grassroots campaigning, look at Hillary’s Myspace, Obama’s Space, or John Edwards’ space.  By the way, in the ever important “friends” race on Myspace, Obama’s got a very healthy lead.  

Check these out.  Post ones you’ve made or seen.


Comments

2 Comments so far

  1. Christopher Waldrop on March 20, 2007 4:13 pm

    I’m not concerned with the stupid things politicians do outside of Congress so much as the stupid things they do inside of Congress. Recently the White House has made an offer on the attorney firing scandal: they’ll let Harriet Miers and Karl Rove come and speak to Congress on the condition that there be no record of the discussions, no transcript of any kind made, and that they not be under oath.
    In other words they don’t want Rove and Miers to be in any way accountable for anything they might say to Congress.
    If Congress allows the White House this kind of power then the last election didn’t matter. And if the last election didn’t matter the next one’s not going to make any difference either.

  2. Joe on March 21, 2007 8:40 pm

    I think the Apple Hillary one is really well done, someone spent some money putting that one together…

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