Posted on 01/17/2010 7:45:54 PM PST by Plutarch
For a brief shining moment, late in the 2008 campaign, Democrats thought that they might own the Internet.
For decades, they had watched their Republican rivals exploit alternative media to raise money, organize voters and whip up outrage. In the 1970s, conservatives pioneered direct-mail fund-raising. In the early 1990s, they ruled the talk-radio dial. Early in the Bush era, they dominated cable news.
But the Internet was going to be different. Direct mail, talk radio, the cable shoutfests — these were inherently conservative technologies, pitched to senior citizens and middle-aged suburbanites. The Internet was for the young, the hip, the multicultural, the liberal. Let the G.O.P. be the party of Fox News. The Democrats would be the party of Google, YouTube and Facebook...
Last Monday, Brown raised $1.3 million from an online “money bomb,” and his campaign reportedly went on to raise a million dollars a day throughout the week. The race’s online landscape looks like last November’s in reverse: from YouTube views to Facebook fans to Twitter followers, Brown enjoys an Obama-esque edge over his Democratic rival, Martha Coakley...
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Laz would hit it.
Good guess, rabidralph, but Plutarch is on track. Messing with cleartype, bmp—>jpg, etc., & posted by mistake. My netlicense shouldbe revoked for overriding failsafe checkbox out of habit! now keyboard stuck and have to use on-screen keybdd. i give up! g’nite!
The author is being a little facetious, but the assumptions are still evident - the libs, being smarter than their conservative opponents, mastered this technology and left the knuckle-dragging troglodytes behind in '08. What the conservatives really need is some sort of web presence, but the poor babies are, with the exception of Sarah on Facebook, hopelessly behind. If only the conservatives had a...well, a website of some sort. Why didn't we think of that?
Donate to Free Republic. We were here before these idiots managed to log in for the first time and we're going to rock their world. No more waiting. Right now.
This Net nonsense is nothing but 'Rat BS thinking they are smarter
1-3 above still apply and the GOP needs to fix all 3. Tell Jorge and Juan to STFU and go away and start CUTTING taxes and the size of gov't.
Well it’s stupid that they show the credits for the photog but don’t say who it is in the picture!
It rhymes with “douche-hat”.
Actually it looks like that too.
The esteemed author of this tripe. Ho kay.
Liberals use the internet to launder illegal campaign donations.
-PJ
“... get over this Party obsession and realize we have a common enemy. The government.”
Needs to be repeated.
“... get over this Party obsession and realize we have a common enemy. The government.”
Needs to be repeated.
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