Comments on: The Internet As A Force In Politics: “Obama Would Not Have Won Without The Internet”

By: Amazing | NikkiSerapio.com

Amazing | NikkiSerapio.com — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:29:21 +0000

[...] across this amazing stat in a TechCrunch article: “…Huffington says flat out that if it wasn’t for the Internet, Obama would not be [...]

By: Shahvar - شاهوار » آرشيو » تلویزیون اینترنتی

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:18:27 +0000

[...] انتخاباتی خود را اختصاص به تلویزیون اینترنتی کرد.(+) اوباما با خرید یک کانال اختصاصی از «دیش نت ورک»٬ که یک [...]

By: » Barack Obama & the Social Pulpit ::: Subversive Influence

» Barack Obama & the Social Pulpit ::: Subversive Influence — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:17:33 +0000

[...] marking a change in the way things are. Obama’s effective use of the Internet in his campaign has been likened to Kennedy’s effective use of television, with Arianna Huffington going as far as to say that [...]

By: terry

terry — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:08:56 +0000

Obama…. will definately help us become a true socialist state.

We are already part way there with government owning portion of private business.

That plus his recent comments is the proof.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:07:43 +0000

We are a democratic republic.

Remember that FDR himself would never have been elected (other than 1st term) if tv or internet had been around. But then the depression wold not have lasted as long.

By: Attila The Honey » Blog Archive » Great spoof of Beyonce and Obama by Alphacat - Video

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:00:57 +0000

[...] This spoof of Beyonce and Obama by Alphacat pretty much sums up why Obama won the election.www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_2008_election.pdf The Democrats learned how to use the internet, i.e. Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Reddit, Twitter, bloggers and consistently postied witty and, many times, cruel spoofson the opposition on YouTube …. how about the Obama Girl? The New York Times John Heilemann led a panel summit and everyone agreed that the internet played the same disruptive role as television did in the election of JFK. Everyone also agreed that without the use of the internet, Obama would not have won the Presidency. http://www.tech...e-won-without-t... [...]

By: Obama using the internet and Creative Commons - Election Pictures | Educationload.com

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:43:07 +0000

[...] From TechCrunch: [...]

By: nicalos

nicalos — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:03:52 +0000

all yo shhhhh obama won cause he deserve it it is good to have obamba as a president

By: The Heroic Ideal of Max Gladwell and Barack Obama: Part II | Max Gladwell

The Heroic Ideal of Max Gladwell and Barack Obama: Part II | Max Gladwell — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:57:24 +0000

[...] within the tech world about Obama’s deft use of social media technologies. According to TechCrunch, “[Arianna] Huffington says flat out that if it wasn’t for the Internet, Obama would not be [...]

By: Sean O'Malley

Sean O'Malley — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:58:26 +0000

From the surface, both the McCain and Obama campaigns used the Web for fund-raising but no one will question that Obama had monumentally more success, pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars more than McCain online.

What was the difference? Both campaigns had websites, cultivated bloggers and made heavy use of YouTube. But the Obama campaign took its efforts further by creating a massive grass-roots online network of volunteers.

Like me, you may have received emails and text messages about Obama’s campaign. You might have even friended him on Facebook. This was novel. But, it was the sophisticated microtargeting in his campaigns that made it brilliant. The Obama campaign used personalized emails and text messages to communicate with people delivering messages relevant to their districts and the issues that they cared about. Beyond getting them to donate this also got them out to vote.

By: Social media decided our next president and how we use it will decide Sprint’s future | Justin case you were wondering

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:05:52 +0000

[...] week’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, New York Magazine’s John Heilemann said the Internet and social media played as disruptive a role in the 2008 election just like TV did in 1960 — remember a sweaty, nervous Richard Nixon debating a clean cut and [...]

By: Política 2.0: Movilizando millones a través de internet

Política 2.0: Movilizando millones a través de internet — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:01:48 +0000

[...] estuvo muy vinculado a la impecable estrategia de comunicación generada alrededor del candidato. En palabras de Arianna Huffington, fundadora de The Huffington Post, blog No. 1 a nivel mundial: “Si no [...]

By: Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:37:18 +0000

Mike, get your hand off it. This was no more than a collection of blow-hard blogtards pissing in each other’s pockets and blowing smoke up their arse.

By: Vcare Call Centers India (p) Ltd.

Vcare Call Centers India (p) Ltd. — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:30:31 +0000

In 21st century is full of gadget. Online election process is very good. Internet is growing and flow of information is fast due to this fast communication channel. Obama victory is itself a report that most people are using Internet to get the current information.

By: Taylor Beatty

Taylor Beatty — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:19:18 +0000

sorry, this is the link:

http://www.eque...EO-Eric-Schmidt

By: Taylor Beatty

Taylor Beatty — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:00:33 +0000

For those of you who think this is unrelated, why don’t you ask Google’s CEO, Eric Schmit? Jim Cramer did:

http://www.eque...CEO-Eric-Schmit

By: mythreya

mythreya — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:49:44 +0000

Internet helped partly in obama victory.But the other media also played substantial role.
http://tech-blo...4u.blogspot.com

By: Barack Obama’s Flickr Set « Creative Capital

Barack Obama’s Flickr Set « Creative Capital — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:12:10 +0000

[...] Obama’s Flickr Set Some folks have said that without the Internet Barack Obama could not have won the election. Others have opined that the election of 2008 signaled the Internet’s flowering as a campaign [...]

By: jerome cukier

jerome cukier — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:11:21 +0000

I agree that Bush lost at least as much as Obama won. now about the internet. 14.5 million hours, a million of facebook fans… this is just coincidental. It just so happens that ppl who voted for obama are connected to the internet. is anyone surprised?
I’m not saying that this is wrong to use the internet as a media. It made fundraising so much easier, for instance. But it didn’t influence opinions much. Not as much, as, say, Obama’s speech on race or the democratic convention.

By: Thomas Selye

Thomas Selye — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:05:49 +0000

“identifying the fact that the tools of democracy in Web 2.0 are beyond the means of many people”
So you are saying that before cell phones there was no *democracy*?
What are talking about? You must live in Sudan! Here in the US we have had *DEMOCRACY* for over 200 years, with more individual freedom than *ANY* other country in the world!
Sir, you are an unbelivable ignorant!

By: Thomas Selye

Thomas Selye — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:59:11 +0000

@Scott –Another 12 years old. You sound like you are reading from a textbook [a Nazi textbook] — Fine, you have no clue, please move to Somalia. Freak.

By: Amazing | NikkiSerapio.com

Amazing | NikkiSerapio.com — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:12:17 +0000

[...] Came across this amazing stat in a TechCrunch article: [...]

By: G

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:09:19 +0000

Obama won because he used all the mediums available to us today – including the Internet to get his message across and touch people. Perhaps for techies like us it was majority of the impact – but to those who showed up for him in record numbers at stadiums and arenas around the country – it was more of Obama the man in the flesh than the virtual Obama. Let’s not forget his books (can you say Hardcopy), his travel around the country, the Obama TV channel, the phone calls, the signs in the front lawns across the country, and the message of hope broadcasted primarily through traditional media – all of these were root causes of his success. The Internet was a medium – one part of a larger messaging – but delivered geometric gains. But in the aggregate it is not the main reason he was successful. Somtimes the Huff does stretch the facts a bit too much….

By: tommyTERROR

tommyTERROR — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:54:46 +0000

By: chase

chase — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:28:33 +0000

The Key to winning is the GROUND GAME. Obama utilized social networking to encourage and obtain volunteers and young college kids to work the street and visit the swing states. Bush Jr won because he had lots of evangelicals working for him. Obama utilized a movement of young and anti-bush democrats to do the same thing. When there is so much momentum and peer pressure building for Obama with the canvassing, it put him over the top in neighboring states like Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and in Biden’s neighboring state of Virginia.