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Obama campaign increasingly turns to technology
San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Sunday, September 25, 2011 | Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Posted on 09/25/2011 12:11:36 PM PDT by thecodont

President Obama has Twittered, Googled and Facebooked millions of American voters at his town hall meetings in collaboration with those companies, and this week he will visit another Bay Area technology firm to push his jobs message.

Obama's stop Monday in Mountain View to star at a town hall at the headquarters of social networking site LinkedIn is the first of two tech-related events planned by the White House. On Wednesday, Obama will participate with Yahoo in what's billed as "the first-ever Hispanic-focused online roundtable" at the White House.

The public LinkedIn event comes at the close of Obama's two-day California trip, which includes several high-priced re-election campaign fundraisers in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/24/MN331L8P8G.DTL#ixzz1YzcR1pmB

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaigns; linkedin; siliconvalley; socialmedia
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1 posted on 09/25/2011 12:11:50 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

He should go dancing on Ellen Degenerates show more. That will help the marxist agenda. /s


2 posted on 09/25/2011 12:17:50 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: thecodont

That’s one of the advantages politicians get from “technology”. You can’t look them in the eyes so they can lie like hell to you and you’ll never know it.


3 posted on 09/25/2011 12:18:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Barry gives them $535 million and they take "the fifth" when asked where it went.)
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To: thecodont
Just a couple of months ago he said Automatic Teller machines was the reason we were in a recession.
4 posted on 09/25/2011 12:20:55 PM PDT by cruise_missile
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To: thecodont

Is he traveling & campaigning on tax payer money - or are the RATS footing the bill?


5 posted on 09/25/2011 12:21:47 PM PDT by LADY J ( Change your thoughts and you change your world.. - Norman Vincent Peale))
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To: thecodont

with “solar panel gate,” maybe he should re think this.

is he really that stupid?

I am guessing he is.


6 posted on 09/25/2011 12:24:36 PM PDT by hadaclueonce ("Endeavor to persevere.")
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To: hadaclueonce

He seems to be. Look at the recent “Attack Watch” fiasco...he’s using technology to bludgeon himself.


7 posted on 09/25/2011 12:27:52 PM PDT by Zarro (Jail Congress)
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To: thecodont; Liz
Headline:Obama campaign increasingly turns to technology

"Increasingly turns"??? lol

No presidential candidate has ever used social networking like Obama did in his 2008 campaign.

He is desperately trying to reconnect, but the magic (unparallelled USA mass deception) has disappeared.

8 posted on 09/25/2011 12:28:19 PM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: thouworm

Amen. Millions of folks know nobama’s goose is cooked. He is thrashing around like a fish out of water trying to reconnect with his base. Methinks his base has gone on.

I’m sure if mind control were possible we’d be constantly bombarded.

nobama is a has been fool.


9 posted on 09/25/2011 12:34:16 PM PDT by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: upchuck

nobama is a has been fool.


But he’ll never catch on to the fact.


10 posted on 09/25/2011 12:37:55 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: thecodont
Just a couple of months ago he said Automatic Teller machines was the reason we were in a recession.
11 posted on 09/25/2011 12:43:19 PM PDT by cruise_missile
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To: thecodont

Wow! Go read the article comments. Very telling considering this is a San Franfreako newspaper.


12 posted on 09/25/2011 12:45:32 PM PDT by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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So the question is, why is he doing a mexican campaign event at the White House. Isn’t it against the law to campaign in federal buildings? Or am I mistaken?


13 posted on 09/25/2011 12:46:47 PM PDT by PghBaldy (War Powers Res: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp)
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To: upchuck

“nobama is a has been fool.”
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Nope, Chuck, he is a past, present and future fool. He is a has been Messiah.


14 posted on 09/25/2011 12:56:34 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: thecodont

Companies should start dropping out of LinkedIn in mass. Looks like they are a far left outfit. You would think companies would know better than to get wrapped up with politics.


15 posted on 09/25/2011 1:01:53 PM PDT by RC2
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To: thecodont
It might not mean anything, but it strikes me that social media is a relatively cheap way to campaign.

There's no printing costs like you would have with posters, buttons, bumper stickers, etc.
The cost of an IP address is minor compared to air time for radia and TV commercials.
They don't have to pay anyone to walk neighborhoods door-to-door. In fact, there's no local presence at all. You could house the entire campaign in one room in DC.

I suspect Obama is hoarding his campaign funds for now. Is he broke? Is he saving it for a bruising primary battle? Last-minute ad blitz? Walking-around money? Or does he intend to simply pocket the money?

16 posted on 09/25/2011 1:05:22 PM PDT by ZOOKER ( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
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To: thecodont

Obama is making the same mistake that Al Gore is making.

They both have deluded themselves into believing that the “problem” is that their messages aren’t getting out to the people, when in fact the actual problem is that their messages are being heard loud and clear, and the people are rejecting them.


17 posted on 09/25/2011 1:15:22 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: thecodont

I’m going to report this thread to attackwatch.com.

And I think I will tweet to #attackwatch, too.

After all, the hi-tech wizards in the Obama Administration need to know when people are making fun of them. Which, these days, is most of the time.


18 posted on 09/25/2011 1:16:59 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: thecodont

Obama will participate with Yahoo in what’s billed as “the first-ever Hispanic-focused online roundtable.
2 1/2 years after taking office,wonder if the Hispanics will think about that? and how does if feel he only knows you when he needs your vote?.


19 posted on 09/25/2011 1:18:05 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

THE TELEPROMPTER IN THE SKY.


20 posted on 09/25/2011 1:42:06 PM PDT by lephantom
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