Thursday, October 30, 2008
Obama and his financial success
According to Andrew Sullivan,
"There is only one real answer to Obama’s financial success: the internet. What Howard Dean, a previous candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, presaged in 2004 - when he raised $27m online for his campaign - has come to fruition only four years later with a candidate who is primed to take advantage of web power and a generation that is now used to relating, thinking, talking and meeting online."Obama's model of raising money became a very big benefit because of all the "million little doners". This was an ongoing fund raiser for the debts which is still going on today. For some of his rallies, he needed peoples emails so that he could send them information on his to donate money and if that person had friends to send the email to as well. This was to gain more support and funds but also to spread the network wider. This is definitely a new form of politics that will be the future of politics.
"Obama’s most famous web videos were never commissioned by the candidate – they were created and disseminated spontaneously online – so his fundraising began to take on a life of its own."There were also many web videos of Obama and people supporting Obama that led to more fundrasing and awarement. This idea of using facebook and other online networks to attain funds will make politics seep into the minds of everyone that searches the internet. This way more people will donate money and more people will acknoledge how awesome that politition is comapred whoever. Their face isn't all over the web which is such a great idea and it benefits everyone in the long run.
this video is amazing and its about obama.
AND please watch this video! it will make your day!
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A good post, but you really have two posts here: one on raising money using the Internet, and a second on web videos. Both are important. The interesting point about the videos is that many are user-generated. That is a show of grass-roots support but it can also be dangerous for the image of the candidate.
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