could have possibly predicted the role that social networks would play in the u.s. presidential elections. candidates are gaining political supporters the way social networkers find friends. the potential voting audience is immense. myspace.com sees up to 56 million unique visitors a month and about 80% are voting age. while both campaigns hope their supporters spread the word, obama is friended almost seven times more than mccain. the obama campaign happened around the time when social media was experiencing a coming of age. barack obama created the movement behind him. he s the first candidate we ve ever seen who had an organization that brought together, the internet and the community organizing. the obama had the internet. he had myspace and facebook. it certainly changed the way that candidates communicated with their base. it changed the way that we thought about how we could communicate and influence candidates. one of the most enduring images of campaign 08 is this
the questions came from users of the site. if you were elected president of the united states, would you allow us to be married? i don t think that any of us could have possibly predicted the role that social networks would play in the u.s. presidential elections. candidates are gaining political supporters the way social networkers find friends. the potential voting audience is immense. myspace.com sees up to 56 million unique visitors a month and about 80% are voting age. while both campaigns hope their supporters spread the word, obama is friended almost seven times more than mccain. the obama campaign happened around the time when social media was experiencie ining a c of age. barack obama created a movement behind him. he s the first candidate eve ever seen who had an organization he brought together, the internet and the community organizing. the obama had the internet. he had myspace and facebook.
presidential elections. candidates are gaining political supporters the way social networkers find friends. the potential voting audience is immense. myspace.com sees up to 56 million unique visitors a month and about 80% are voting age. while both campaigns hope their supporters spread the word, obama is friended almost seven times more than mccain. the obama campaign happened around the time when social media was experiencing a coming of age. barack obama created the movement behind him. he s the first candidate we ve ever seen who had an organization he brought together, the internet and the community organizing. the obama had the internet. he had myspace and facebook. it certainly changed the way that candidates communicated with their base. it changed the way that we thought about how we could communicate and influence candidates. one of the most enduring images of campaign 08 is this one of barack obama. that barack obama image, it s here, there, everywhere it seem
night beating democrat john ossoff. gop congressional candidate thank you for getting up early with us this morning. this is a victory for republicans but also a seat that has been read. a major loss for hollywood, the liberal elite. one of the things i noticed is democrats still don t get it. they ran a campaign on anti-trump. anti-trump anger was not big enough to capture their voting audience. what they don t get is it is about the working man. they were disgruntled, they were upset and still not appealing. they relied on heavy hitters from hollywood. that did not help this time either. look at that sweets sent prior
contenders only 2% of those surveys had never heard of him. compared with 27% who never heard of walker and 16% who never heard of rubio. he s popular and people know who he is. the question is how do people know him. if they know him from his form apprentice shows that will be say different perspective and likability that he will have from an audience perhaps than what he would have from a voting audience. but i do think it s interesting that when you point out jeb bush has this foil, why does he need one. shouldn t we know who jeb bush is by now? he s the billion dollar guy right? he s no different than wearing and rubio. you are right about platt students. they all say the same thing and they are all vague and say i m the guy to do it just because. jeb has a specific approach to bettering the economy.