Tuesday, September 29, 2009

"Obama's campaign's use of social networking tools."

Who once knew that candidates for president would develop a new tool of social networking sites to help themselves in running for office. Barack Obama while running for president during a 2008 elections had a social networking website that have help him rise money and get his support that is known to be MyBO- http://www.my.barckobama.com/. After scoring Texas for Obama Trappi his campaign manager says: "In 1992, Carville said, 'It's the economy,stupid!' ... "This year, it was the network, stupid!" Using this sort of web site for political campaign was a great idea, people could see all the important events that went on like for examples Obama's speeches. They also used music, pictures and videos to connect candidate with ordinary people. " The campaign, consciously or unconsciously, became much more of a media operation than simply a presidential campaign."

1 comment:

  1. Wow i didn't know President Obama, used such tactics. It was a very smart move to get young voters on his side by using social networking.

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