Hillary Clinton Texting to Beat Obama (Cell Phone Campaigning)

NewsMax ^ | May 14, 2007

[2ndDivisionVet]

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has launched a mobile-to-mobile text-message campaign in an effort to reach more of America’s 236,000 cell phone users.

Users who text the word "Join” to 77007 will receive regular updates about the Clinton campaign, which will "ask for voters’ input and offer a feature allowing supporters to surf Hillary’s Web site on their mobile phones,” according to a statement from her campaign.

"By harnessing the power of text messaging, we can engage voters in the political process using the latest technology and provide personalized, local campaign updates to our supporters nationwide.”

The text-message initiative is "a sign the campaign is hunting for every possible vote in her bitter battle with rival Barack Obama,” the New York Post reported.

The text-message launch didn’t go with a hitch, however. According to the Politics on the Hudson blog, the first version of the statement provided the wrong number to which supporters would send messages.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I think they meant 236 million cell phone users, not thousand.

[Hegemony Cricket]

OMG - INBD

[ClearCase_guy]

Obama told me that 10,000 of the people sending these text messages have been killed.

[RichInOC]

HILLARY: HOW ARE YOU OBAMA!!
HILLARY: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
HILLARY: HA HA HA HA....

[unkus]

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[samtheman]

Users who text the word "Join” to 77007 will receive regular updates about the Clinton campaign

Oh, boy. Talk about interesting reading. Updates from the Clinton campaign. Wow! People are going to be glued to their phones all day. Work is going to grind to a halt everywhere.

[P-40]

which will "ask for voters’ input

They might ask for it but they won't want it...unless it comes with a big donation.

[jonascord]

Do we get to text back answers? I have two well chosen words for her...

[SF Republican]

I think they meant 236 million cell phone users -the US population is 300 million, I doubt almost everyone has a phone, maybe though.

[Cementjungle]

surf Hillary’s Web site on their mobile phones

I would sooner body surf on a cesspool than surf her web site.

[OSHA]

Do we get to text back answers? I have two well chosen words for her...

Is the first one "Get"?

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

I doubt almost everyone has a phone, maybe though

terrorists and criminals buy disposable cellphones by dozens and thousands......it is reasonable to believe that she is interested in the votes of criminals and (if they vote) the terrorists......and I suppose illegal aliens use them too

[theDentist]

Can we send a text back “HLRY, FU”??

[tractorman]

I think her text addy is 666.

[Arrowhead1952]

I think they meant 236 million cell phone users, not thousand.

Uh, I don't think there are that many cell phone users in the country. There may be 236 million cell numbers, but there are quite a number of cell numbers that are strictly used as backup communication for security systems if landlines fail to contact authorities.

[rod1]

Yeah I just know the Clintanoids are going to spend 24/7 reading and following the suggestions of those millions of cell phone suckers, err voters.

Reply text message from Hillary...shut up and vote for me...twice, except in Milwakee where you get three votes.

[jonascord]

Something along those lines. I was thinking of the 2nd word being “you!” While it is simple, even crude, it would seem, based on what I read over at DU, to be so common as to be understandable by even yellow dog democrats and other developmentally challenged persons.

[CaptRon]

I've just disabled the "7" and "0" on my phone, just in case I dial that number.

I might not be able to make a few calls but it's worth it. I don't make that many calls anyway.

[reagan_fanatic]

[jdm]

"Y'all know how to put this here thing on vibrate?"