Everyone refers to the Obama campaign as benchmarks for so much in political campaigning, so forgive me while I do the same. Below is a video from the99percent, a think-tank in the US that has a series of talks, lectures or seminars that they video and put on the web. There’s a lot of really [...]
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How the Tories lost the unlosable election
With negotiations between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats taking place as I write, it’s worth considering why the Tories are in this invidious position. A few months ago, David Cameron and his coterie were riding high in the polls, with expectations high that Labour would be smashed at the ballot box. The rout [...]
Britain’s first internet election?
TechPresident and CNN International are posing the question whether this UK election is the first “social media” election. Certainly both Labour and the Tories have made extensive use of the Internet, including iphone apps, and innovative web apps. We’ve seen Twitter and Facebook used extensively, and David Cameron was widely reported in the election commentary [...]
Abbott’s “Sarah Palin moment” is good news for Tony Abbott
Tony Abbott has developed more policy on the run while running off his mouth as a speech in front of a bunch of wealthy West Australian industrialists. “There has got to be a system which encourages people to take up work where that work is available and certainly the idea of having people on the [...]
Lessons from the (Modern) Prince, Part 4: Understanding the Greens in Tasmania
Following a fortnight of uncertainty after the 2010 Tasmanian election, the Greens Party led by former advertising guru Nick McKim, have flexed their muscles to effectively appoint the ALP as minority governing party. This act by the Greens Party came after both major parties refused to negotiate with the Greens, and made this a part [...]
Why the conservatives are wrong on the economy
UK Labour media master Alastair Campbell has an excellent post on his blog today about how the Tories consistently fail on strategy, even if they excel on tactics. He basically makes the point that even though the media is on their side, and they are able to get their line in the paper each day, [...]
Growing your movement: advice from Karl Rove
Karl Rove was responsible for George Bush’s election win over Al Gore in 2000, and denies being involved in the Swift Boating of John Kerry in 2004. His reputation as a political strategist without equal is deserved, as he invented the micro-targeting and individualisation of campaign communications with direct mail. With the Tea Party movement [...]
Connected candidates: Beyond Twitter
Most political candidates are on Twitter and Facebook – using these social media tools to reach out to younger voters, and instantly communicate with supporters, the public and the media. I’ve written previously about how political candidates can use social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, Google Apps and how campaigns have made use of [...]
Some semi-live blogging of SA and Tas elections
Got some semi-live blogging of the South Australian and Tasmanian elections tonight. (Trying out the Google Wave integration with WordPress. Google Wave didn’t work. Old school now.) Make sure you refresh the page every now and then to get updates. There is discussion around the influence (or otherwise) of Nick Xenophon, who came out this [...]
Beat up: Election authorisation for blogs
The latest confected outrage to come from the blogosphere is the draconian notion that people who comment on elections, candidates or parties during an election period, should have to own up to them. Asking whether it is “taking responsibility or being silenced”, Deborah on Larvatus Prodeo suggests that she may not make election comment since [...]
Massachusetts election outcome shows dangers of incumbency
On Tuesday, I wrote that the Democrats would be the victims of incumbency. In Massachusetts, a strongly Democratic state, the Dems control the state Legislature, most or all of the Congressional seats, and now all but one of the Senate seats. With Obama in the White House, and the Democrats controlling the US Congress and [...]
The Democrats will be victims to incumbency
There’s been some discussion about whether the Democrats will be victim to the over-cooked expectations of Obama supporters and energised conservative Republicans: First, the background: the party of the president in office essentially always loses seats in the mid-term elections (2002 was a post-9/11 one-off), a tendency likely to be reinforced in 2010 by the [...]
Going local – social networking for politicians
While there’s a million and one articles on the internet about how Obama built his success on social networks. There are fewer articles about how local candidates’ campaigns used social networking to promote their candidacy. I’ve previously written about one instance of a local campaign – the governor race in Virginia – using text message [...]
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