Tomorrow 24 states will hold their presidential primaries, the largest Super Tuesday in U.S. history, and what will be, effectively, a national primary.
Last week we endorsed two presidential candidates based on their technology policies – Barack Obama for the Democrats and John McCain for the Republicans. We had good TV and blog coverage of the endorsements (see summary and clips here).
I also had the great opportunity to have a long talk with Rob Hawley, the host of WCBS Dishin Digital. The recording is up at TalkCrunch and is embedded below.
I really like the radio format. There’s no camera staring at you to make you nervous, and you generally have a lot more time to do a deep dive on the topic. This interview was twenty minutes long, v. just 3-5 minutes for most of the TV spots.
Make sure you get out and vote tomorrow.
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it’s “staring”, not “starting” – about the camera.
All of them are full of Sh*t – both Techies and non Techies alike.
Perhaps there should be a group of three Presidents as opposed to just one person in a winner takes all approach.
SEW – that’s the spirit. In your case, you should probably stay home.
After seeing your interest in the election , and TC endorsement , i started to like you more Mike.
Its important to tell others , IT bloggers are not just a techie guy’s.
They care about the important issues , and try to make a difference they way they can.
Cheers
TC has quite some force in “bringing the message” to the masses – with millions of unique visitors each month, it reaches out to a sizeable chunk of potential voters, even though lots of readers are from outside US, like myself.
And I like the trick: TC is heavy enough to get media coverage, which will make it even heavier. Good move, MA.
22 states… florida and michigan held their primaries early
Is there no way you can endorse Ron Paul instead? Can we vote on this?
Ron Paul 2008!
I just listened to the audio – sorry I take that back, I see a vote already happened
I dont vote but who wants to buy my vote?
lol @ #9 … there’s a startup for that.. what is it Mike?
Mike, nice advice there at the end… the “microbrands” would be awesome.
Blogging vs. Traditional media: Blogging, not as a web trend or technology, but as a style of communication and response.. is radical. In both the scientific sense and the 1980’s hot-pink gotcha bracelet sense. Blogging drinks traditional media’s milkshake.
…yawn…this ain’t the site people go to for political information, hence the name ‘techcrunch’….plus you’re whole ‘one of each’ thing, that’s just lame…either take a position, say who you’re going to vote for, alienate and offend your readers while standing by your convictions OR just don’t bring it up…
Is it just me or the likes of MA and Scoble promoting themselves more than what most would like in the last 20-30 days…”I spoke with X here on radio, Y there over breakfast…” I am with #11, we don’t come to this website to read your life blog…lets talk tech and leave the rest to our twitter/facebook accounts.
dave – i did. in my original endorsement I said i was voting for obama. so, you’re fired as a reader. go away.
lmao… so that’s how you get mike to answer you…
Why wasn’t Ron Paul given the TechCrunch endorsement? McCain probably doesn’t even know how to turn on a computer.
Funny. Does anyone else remember Arrington’s petulant declaration (verbatim), “Obama just lost my vote”? All because of a bug on the candidate’s site, exactly a year ago.
Anyway, I agree with these (reformed) sentiments. Get out and vote. Don’t whine about the candidates: if it was that bad, you would have stood for election yourself. Democracy relies on participation.
Super Tuesday is done. I don’t believe people voting for a war-monger like McCain, when 70% Americans wanted an end to war.
Ron Paul is an idealist. He may have a strategy, and probably he’ll get to be the King Maker. Unfortunately, most Americans don’t read enough to understand what is wrong with the economy. I am a Ron Paul supporter. He has earned respect, and I thank him for making me believe in America again.
Barack Obama would be the new President, considering all the support he has. The new President is gonna be a Democrat this time.
On the Republican side, I’d support Mitt Romney over Insane McCain anytime (Lesser of the two evils!).