New Media Obama Returns To Tried-And-True Local TV…With A Twist

by Mark Joyella | 10:41 am, April 20th, 2011

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In 2008, the Obama campaign seemed to re-invent modern elections with their success in new media–raising cash, organizing supporters and channeling them to the polls. As President Obama gears up his 2012 re-election campaign, he’s turned back to the tried and true for presidents seeking four more years: TV interviews. Gloria Goodale, writing in The Christian Science Monitor, says it’s notable that the guy who “made his name in new media during the 2008 election cycle, is burnishing some old media tools this time around.”

As Goodale points out, Obama has given interviews to a dozen local television stations over the past two months–including four one-on-one interviews with reporters from Denver; Raleigh, N.C.; Dallas; and Indianapolis. “These cities are in states that could be important in the 2012 election, say political strategists.” And, unlike sending text messages to supporters and building a web-based grassroots fundraising system, it’s old-school: presidents using the allure of a presidential interview to get major media time–for free, of course–in key states. Bush 41 did it, Clinton did it, they all do it. Only this time, there will be an Obama style social media twist:

Local media strategies will be key to both sides in the 2012 election, says media expert Jonathan Askin at Brooklyn Law School. While the old truism that all politics is local may not always be true for presidential races, he says, it will be this time.

The difference is social media, he says. “With old media tools, local press, radio and TV, it was difficult for a candidate to wage a nationwide, local strategy …,” he says via e-mail. “The Internet finally makes local campaigning, with national themes and local messaging, effective for presidential politics.”

Social-media entrepreneurs and strategists have figured out how to harness the Internet for hyperlocal purposes, he adds.

Read the full story at CSMonitor.com.

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The Lantern of Truth

Campaigning . It’s all he knows .
Black and Gold Brad

Campaigner-in-Chief
writer

And it looks like he joined the Blue Man group.
Barack Must Go

I’ll tell you where I’d like to see Obama return to……..
RoughAcres

I’d like to see ALL declared candidates (keyword: declared. Donald Trump will never declare; he’d have to release his financials, and that just ain’t happening) do the same thing – appear in live interviews with local TV stations all across the country. I’d like to see more face-to-face debates between candidates. I’d like to see more town halls with candidates. The greater our participation in democracy, the more democratic it becomes… and the better informed the electorate, the better they will understand the consequences of their vote.
MrTPar_taY

Shout out to the right-voter early and vote often (beat the Demo’Crupts at their own game) to get rid of this fraud!