A blog by Luke Akehurst about politics, elections, and the Labour Party - With subtitles for the Hard of Left. Just for the record: all the views expressed here are entirely personal and do not necessarily represent the positions of any organisations I am a member of.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Obama's Digital Campaign

My boss at Weber Shandwick, former Labour Chief Press Officer Colin Byrne, has some insights into the role of "Inline Communications" in Obama's campaign here.

5 Comments:

Blogger Hughes Views said...

All very fine and dandy no doubt but is there any genuine evidence that this stuff really helped much apart from in the (not completely insignificant I'll grant you) matter of raising cash? Was the turnout of young people significantly up on previous elections for example? And where's the analysis of the input of 2m Facebook users and the actions being taken (I guess none) as a result of it?

Surely having an engaging candidate, a rubbish opponent, a desperately unpopular incumbent and the highly publicised collapse of the Republicans' favourite "who needs regulation" policy helped a bit...

7:19 pm, November 19, 2008

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your boss should be informed that the Obama campaign was won singlehandedly by my friend, our very own unrepentant homophobe. Blessed indeed!

8:00 pm, November 19, 2008

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Aren't you missing something?

Obama is a one-off, first-rate, fuck-off bright, straight-up charismatic.

Brown is a duff, useless, clunky, slow-thinking, piss-poor excuse for a human being.

8:41 pm, November 19, 2008

 
Blogger Mark Still News said...

That last post is very poor and not what one expects should be on this blog!

12:10 am, November 20, 2008

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree with you, Mark Still News. The foul language is inappropriate. However, I can hardly disagree with the sentiments.

8:00 pm, November 20, 2008

 

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