Personal Democracy Forum 2008
Note by Thirsy Mind:
Did your candidate understand the importance of the internet?
All panelists: yes.
Was it Obama’s decision not to engage with netroots blogging?
That’s not our strategy.
Why does Obama have more facebook friends than McCain?
Just because you don’t facebook supporters doesn’t mean you dno’t have supporters. Obama beats McCain 4 to 1 on facebook friends, but they’re tight in the polls.
Official campaigns are less important than in previous elections, independent supporters doing their own thing are getting more power
What technical feature impressed you the most about an opponent?
All: the Obama distributed call center.
Edwards manager: “McCain doesn’t use a computer.”
McCain manager: “You don’t need to use a computer to understand how the internet works”
Crowd laughs.
Edwards manager: “Try explaining Facebook, Twitter, Google to your grandmother and see how that works..”
Crowd: ooooooo
Online voting?
Paul manager: Not a high enough time cost, people won’t take it seriously.
We still don’t know whether this is a new tool, or actually transformative.
All panelists: yes.
Was it Obama’s decision not to engage with netroots blogging?
That’s not our strategy.
Why does Obama have more facebook friends than McCain?
Just because you don’t facebook supporters doesn’t mean you dno’t have supporters. Obama beats McCain 4 to 1 on facebook friends, but they’re tight in the polls.
Official campaigns are less important than in previous elections, independent supporters doing their own thing are getting more power
What technical feature impressed you the most about an opponent?
All: the Obama distributed call center.
Edwards manager: “McCain doesn’t use a computer.”
McCain manager: “You don’t need to use a computer to understand how the internet works”
Crowd laughs.
Edwards manager: “Try explaining Facebook, Twitter, Google to your grandmother and see how that works..”
Crowd: ooooooo
Online voting?
Paul manager: Not a high enough time cost, people won’t take it seriously.
We still don’t know whether this is a new tool, or actually transformative.
