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.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 4:56 pm
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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- Name: Luke Akehurst
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Labour MP for North Durham since 2024. Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Dad. Unite and GMB union member. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
5 Comments:
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
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
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
That last post is very poor and not what one expects should be on this blog!
12:10 am, November 20, 2008
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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