Posted on 01/22/2007 12:41:15 PM PST by areafiftyone
As Dan Balz and I wrote in today's Post, presidential candidates on both sides are focused heavily on bolstering their Internet presence through a variety of new tools, including video, podcasts and even online video chats.
To brainstorm and implement these new innovations, the campaigns are chasing after a small group of people in their 20s and early 30s versed in the language of the new media.
One of the real "gets" on the GOP side of that world is Patrick Ruffini, who served as the Web master of President Bush's 2004 reelection campaign and then served in a similar role at the Republican National Committee. Ruffini gained recognition in national Republican circles for his blog, which was one of the first serious attempts on the Republican side at building an online community.
Ruffini has signed on with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign as an e-campaign adviser. The hiring is only the latest sign that Giuliani is serious about a run for national office in 2008.
In building a national staff, Giuliani has recruited a number of former Bush operatives to his cause -- the latest being Brent Seaborn, who will be the director of strategy for the campaign. Seaborn was intimately involved in the microtargeting efforts credited with growing the number of Republican votes for Bush in 2004. Seaborn was a co-founder of TargetPoint Consulting, which specialized in microtargeting and data mining.
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(((((((RUDY PING))))))
You can lipstick this pig all you want, but Rino Rudy is a liberal through and through. He shall not have my vote.
Our side will need slick campaigns, because Hillary is about to unleash the slickest campaign ever created --- she's already calling herself "a Margaret Thatcher" for crying out load.
Well then Rudy will be oinking to the presidency! ((((OINK! OINK!!))))
It diminishes any reputation Patrick has as a conservative. He's just a GOP hack that doesn't care if a pro-abortion, pro-homosexual agenda, pro-gun control liberal gets elected so long as that liberal is a Republican.
RFOLMAO!! I know - I almost choked when I read that! I think Maggie Thatcher should give her a kick her big wide hips!
I doubt it. If he is nominated he will lose. Any serious look at his past and you see as big a flaming liberal as Hitlery. Social conservatives and evanglicals will bolt.
Gee, really? Why haven't you mentioned that before? ;~)
I hope Rudy has a YouTube video and a MySpace page.........
That's OK - for every one of you, there are ten Reagan Democrats who will vote for him.
I come from a family of Reagan Dems and none I have asked will vote for this pro gay, pro abortion, anti gun liberal.
Obama Hussein thanks you for your vote.
More like a Mrs. Stalin.
No, Duncan Hunter thanks me for my vote, and my contribution.
You're about to recieve my broken record post. Just yesterday you told me your voting CP, so why are you still fretting about GOP candidates?
"That's OK - for every one of you, there are ten Reagan Democrats who will vote for him."
There are 40-50 million gun owners that wont.
Correction -- she more like Mr. Stalin....lol.
I am supporting Duncan Hunter in the primaries, but if he or one like him does not win the nomination I will go third party rather then support a liberal with a r by his name like Rino Rudy.
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