That’s an impressive investigation.
The Baraqqi organization is REALLY powerful.
That’s why no matter how poorly things are going in the country, he can win in 2012 with a plurality if a nationwide third party candidate develops (watch the Soros $$).
I think the Baraqqis can get 35% of the vote no matter what.
Here’s some more info on what they do:
One of the many ways that the election of Barack Obama as president has echoed that of John F. Kennedy is his use of a new medium that will forever change politics. For Mr. Kennedy, it was television. For Mr. Obama, it is the Internet.
“Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be president. Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not have been the nominee,” said Arianna Huffington, editor in chief of The Huffington Post.
Mr. Obama used the Internet to organize his supporters in a way that would have in the past required an army of volunteers and paid organizers on the ground, Mr. Trippi said.
“The tools changed between 2004 and 2008. Barack Obama won every single caucus state that matters, and he did it because of those tools, because he was able to move thousands of people to organize.”
Mr. Obama’s campaign took advantage of YouTube for free advertising. Mr. Trippi argued that those videos were more effective than television ads because viewers chose to watch them or received them from a friend instead of having their television shows interrupted.
“The campaign’s official stuff they created for YouTube was watched for 14.5 million hours,” Mr. Trippi said. “To buy 14.5 million hours on broadcast TV is $47 million.”
There has also been a sea change in fact-checking, with citizens using the Internet to find past speeches that prove a politician wrong and then using the Web to alert their fellow citizens.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/us/politics/04memo.html
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2009/world_wide_webbed_12862
http://www.tapmag.net/wordpress/2008/10/08/politics-2-0-how-the-obama-campaign-won-the-internet/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2308332/posts?page=9#9