I worked as a get-out-the-vote volunteer for McCain and can attest to the inferiority of our effort relative to the Obamites. No question about it, they beat us like a rented mule.
Agree. I attended a McCain-Palin rally just after the convention. I found out about the rally on the McCain website, and in order to “pre-request” my tix, I was instructed to email a McCain campaign office in my area. When I picked up my tix at the office, I had to give them my driver’s license to verify. They had both my email address and my address. Not once after that was I sent email requesting time or money for the candidate.
I had heard that McCain’s campaign website was inferior to Obama’s in how it approached and appealed to visitors (read “potential donors and volunteers”), so I visited Obama’s campaign website to check things out. In order to do something on the site (maybe to see if there were rallies in my area?), I had to supply my email...I’m glad I supplied my Yahoo address which has a great spam filter because I was sent several emails a week from “Barack Obama”, “Michelle Obama”, “Joe Biden”, et al. asking for both money and time...”just five dollars”...”send ten dollars and you get a bumper sticker”...
Even though Obama’s announcing his VP pick via text messaging was a stunt, it was symbolic of his grasp of the power of new communications technologies...McCain was horse and buggy compared to Obama’s high speed rail.
Missy