Shouldn’t there be a rule that you can’t include “miscellaneous” when you just threw up every other category possible? In other words isn’t “miscellaneous” and any other category mutually exclusive?

It’s where she was hiding the broomstick.

This means you are on no one’s list except Obama. I got no fewer than 30 emails and text messages with: reminders to vote, lists of endorsed candidates, voter ID updates, polling locations, so on. These came from Democratic PACs, party organizations, social groups and candidates that I have either a) given money to or b) signed up for their mailing list.

I can understand if you don’t want to participate in the political community, but it would be nice if you didn’t throw rocks in the dark.

No, for SpaceyG that would be discussing New Media (of which she isn’t a part) and Blogs (none of hers which anyone views).

That’s it, babe! Keep the hatred up! We all know you don’t like “sausage” anymore.

Sure mailers and robo-calls work in getting elections won today, but as the financial types say, ‘past performance is no guarantee of future results.’ The future, is going to be on your ‘device du jour’.

Go curl-up to your boy Rogue, you jealous, snappy little wiener dogs. Back to your corner by the fireplace. Maybe if you huddle together for strength in numbers, I’ll actually see you and thus avoid stepping on you.

Now where did I put that broomstick…

No one does, SpaceyG. No one does.

Why is it that you continue to watch and then complain about MSM? I really don’t understand. Everyone here knows you think what you do is so much better than what they do. Please stop, you are starting to sound like Dale’s constant reminder that he was an investigative journalist, and Casey’s reminder he was raised by a single mother.

We all get that you only want campaign materials delivered to your iPhone, but what is the percentage of the VAP out there that are getting their information solely from social networking sites and text messages? I would assume somewhere around 3-4%?

So, why should every campaign in this state/nation switch to a medium that is only going to connect to that few in the VAP? Yes, I like the idea of alt.media getting a larger percentage of the population, but is it cost effective? TV ads will still reach more of the VAP and robocalls can be targeted surprisingly well. Just because you do not like them, does not mean that they don’t work.

How many of your local commission candidates see Facebook as something other than a place where drunk college kids put up ridiculous pictures of themselves that they will regret in two years?

As for turn out… I am going to guess that the majority of new turnout has not been because of alt.media, but because of the great American tradition of fads. A black man running for POTUS is something that is going to turn out population no matter what, on both sides. It is a fad. Like the iPhone (which I like) it has a strong following now, but in a year it was replaced by the iPhone 3G. Black candidate 2.0 is going to do the same thing 4 years from now… Age is going to be interesting in turnout. Yes, a lot of young people are going to vote, but lets look down the line eight years and see if they are still voting. Will they turn out for the municipals in 09 even?

Oh, did you happen to list your cell phone number as your home phone number when getting your DL renewed?

I know plenty of people like you. Early adopters. In a couple of years the technology is going to roll over you like you are trying to roll over the MSM. You’ll be stuck trolling around dismissing alt.media 2.0 and they will all be laughing at you and your silly Facebook friends as nothing more than a pedophiles wet dream.

Rather, I’m interested in seeing if all the new media forms of comm will engage and motivate a NEW voting block to the polls… here in GA. We shall see. We already saw a surge in (Presidential) primary numbers, a lot attributed to new ways of reaching and inspiring new kinds of voters.

And you’re right. Maybe not so much here in Georgia, yet, but surely it will only go uphill from here, us always lagging behind and being the lowly of the low.

I would SOOOO love to stay on this thread all day long as it’s infinitely fascinating to me, and I will learn a lot from many different POVs, but blogging too much makes me retain water and makes for icky puffy feet and ankles, so I need to get up and circulate the limbs. And go vote, of course.

http://www.politics4kids.com

i am talking about reaching the masses not the fringes–i am certainly among the fringes–but the folks who do not know who there senator is are not likely to be a friend of his on their facebook page–these fringes are quite useful for raising money–and again probably quite a feather in a candidates cap for low turnout events like runoffs–this election cycle is probably a test of the usefullness of “new, social, active media” i agree it is becoming more important–its just not all important–and its actually most important when it breaks though to the msm–like the obama girl or when it forces the msm’s hand like the dan rather nat’l guard letters–i don’t have more than anecdotal evidence–but my next door neighbor votes quite regularly and is fairly well informed but he has never heard of peach pundit and he does not text much–his 16 year old daughter texts alot –but he does not…

And why bother with blogs and actually participating in the political process by writing and commenting about it while you’re busy poo-pooing that the world isn’t all that interested in connectivity?

(I’m going to pretend to believe you didn’t actually write that line “don’t assume the world is or wants to be as plugged in as you like to be…” while online, ‘k? It’ll just be our little secret. Like maybe I can say about you that I read it in a magazine or something old-fashioned like that!)

I know you’re likely the kind to be MUCH more influenced by totally passive media, such as Big TV ads. Since you of course don’t blog or anything that “plugged-in.” So surely the rest of the world wouldn’t want to be that engaged either!