http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/the-morning-after/ falling indelibly into the past Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:06:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/the-morning-after/#comment-162 liz Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:09:39 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=74#comment-162 <p>I’d say this year’s election was successfully nationalized.  Exit polls had voters caring more about national issues 50some to local issues 30some of the time.  Plus, sites like ActBlue made it extremely easy for doners to find targeted races across the country and contribute to them, so that congressional races which ordinarily never would have garnered any attention, let alone money, got thousands of dollars from every posting about the race on Daily Kos.  YouTube and the ads were definitely important (Macaca!), but I think that the blogosphere’s fundraising potential truly came into its own this cycle, and made a HUGE difference. </p> I’d say this year’s election was successfully nationalized.  Exit polls had voters caring more about national issues 50some to local issues 30some of the time.  Plus, sites like ActBlue made it extremely easy for doners to find targeted races across the country and contribute to them, so that congressional races which ordinarily never would have garnered any attention, let alone money, got thousands of dollars from every posting about the race on Daily Kos.  YouTube and the ads were definitely important (Macaca!), but I think that the blogosphere’s fundraising potential truly came into its own this cycle, and made a HUGE difference.

]]> http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/the-morning-after/#comment-161 Laura Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:18:58 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=74#comment-161 <p>I was just thinking that about local politics. Now that you can easily find out about any candidate anywhere, people know about other elections and other issues. I wonder how that might effect things in the future. </p> I was just thinking that about local politics. Now that you can easily find out about any candidate anywhere, people know about other elections and other issues. I wonder how that might effect things in the future.

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