I will not be writing on this blog for a while. The reason is that I have accepted the position of New Media Operations Manager at Obama for America. In this position I will be assisting the Director and Deputy Director of New Media with project management and doing logistics work for the department.
Part of the hiring agreement was that I not maintain a personal blog while I am working at the campaign (not that I will have any
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Encontré una nueva palabra: ¡Obamónos! ¡Vamonos a apoyar a Barack Obama!
Interesting insight from the New York Times on how young voters are active disseminators of political news, not just passive consumers of it:According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but conduits as well — sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks. And in turn, they rely on friends and online connections for news to come to them. In essence, they are replacing the
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I'm really upset about what happened in Texas and I keep asking myself why. I've been looking for explanations of how Hillary won and I've found a good analysis from the Dallas Morning News. It constrasts Hillary's top-down strategy, which rested on old political connections to the political elite, to Obama's grassroots organizing strategy. AUSTIN – The Democratic presidential candidates are similar on most policy issues but could not have been more different when it came to courting voters.A year
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So Larry Lessig has decided not to run for Congress. Now all of us socially-progressive geeks can put our full energy into Barack Obama. Obama has done a great job of drawing his financial support many micro-donations collected online rather than relying on a few welathy donors as Hillary has. This new and more distributed model of fundraising was first successfully applied by the Howard Dean campaign in 2004 and has big implications. Ideally, collecting money from thousands of ordinary
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I first became interested in politics through a civics class in my New Jersey high school. I learned that there are institutions in America that allow ordinary citizens to have a say in the direction of their country, fighting injustice, and having a positive presence in the world. I volunteered for my first Democratic presidential campaign when I was a senior in high school. While my candidate, Bill Bradley, didn't win the nomination, I loved working for his campaign. I
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Show your love for Barack this Valentine's Day. Post this on your blog and send it to your friends. blog embed code:<a href="http://www.barackobama.com/"><img style="width: 455px; height: 585px;" src=""http://bligoo.com/media/users/0/908/images/barack_obama_valentine.jpg" /></a>"
Obama's 8-point win in Iowa has made me excited and optimistic about US politics for the first time in a long time. photo credit: AP
