Obama: Grassroots Empowerment Online


	Obama: Grassroots Empowerment Online

kmcolo

1-25-2008 12:36 PM

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politics, obama, clinton, edwards, election, election08

kmcolo says:

Obama wins the Democratic web largely through the sense of "empowerment" to organize in his name. According to this analysis.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b5496d3f-92f9-4ecf-910c-fb955b8501c9/100161CD-5AB2-4FF1-A149-4EB7D3369699/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ndnblog.org/node/1786" href="http://www.ndnblog.org/node/1786" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ndnblog.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndnblog.org/node/1786"><P>An interesting factoid was thrown into play today by <A target="_blank" href="http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/19494/the_democratic_race_obama_dominating_online_organizing_of_offline_events">Micah Sifry at TechPresident</A>. He did a comparison of how the supporters of the three major Democratic presidential candidates are using online tools at the campaign websites to organize offline activities like throwing house parties, fundraisers and phone banking. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndnblog.org/node/1786">The short answer is that Obama is overwhelming Clinton and Edwards. The numbers are really striking.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndnblog.org/node/1786"><UL>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Los Angeles: Obama 170, to Clinton 8, and Edwards 0. </LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">San Francisco: Obama 189, to Clinton 9, and Edwards 29.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">San Diego: Obama 55, to Clinton 6, and Edwards 30.</LI>
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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">New York City: Obama 292, Clinton 13, Edwards 0.</LI>
</UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndnblog.org/node/1786">Obama has clearly encouraged a bottom-up campaign that empowers his supporters to make things happen in his name. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ndnblog.org/node/1786">We’ll see how this plays out by the primary day on Feb. 5th. My guess is that this is a ticking time bomb that is unnoticed</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/100161CD-5AB2-4FF1-A149-4EB7D3369699/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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