politics 2.0, part 2 – keep on Barack-n-me-baby…

Ok pardon the bad pun in the title, but I couldn’t resist…

As I mentioned in my first post about politics 2.0, this is not a political blog, however I have taken a certain fascination with how the Internet and the “web 2.0 phenomenon” is going to shape the 2008 elections. As such, I will be discussing the non-partisan/platform aspects here:

I was almost finished wrapping-up the 2nd post in this series “from grassroots to netroots” when I received an email from Barack Obama’s PAC that I thought warranted discussion.

The blast was presumably sent to his email base with the goal to build awareness and excitement about his announcement tomorrow to run for the big house in 08. Beyond the “come join us for the rallies” there was a link to a 2 minute video clip (not uncommon for his campaign strategy).

What I find fascinating is that the clip didn’t mention ANY POLITICAL AGENDAS!!! It is merely a discussion about how his campaign will engage the constituent base, many aspects of which I touched on in my last post. It’s arguable whether or not the first 49 seconds of the clip stand for a platform in-and-of-itself, but we’ll save that discussion for another time and place.

I don’t have time to write about it here, but ponder just for a second what Barack’s cost per voter impression (I just made that metric up) is vs. traditional media (compared to say, Rudy Giuliani)… 

-Chris