Obama backers will stay involved, online, study says
A new report says that President-elect Barack Obama's grassroots army -- who helped him smash fund-raising records, filled the ranks of volunteers, and took the campaign online -- will stay involved as he takes office.
The study released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 62 percent of Obama voters plan to ask others to back his policies, and among those voters who were involved in online efforts, 25 percent say they will support the administration by reaching out online.
The study also found that 27 percent of wired Obama voters have already gone online to follow the transition.
Obama, more than any presidential candidate before him, capitalized on the networking power of the Internet, and has pledged to continue harnessing it during his presidency. Since the election, his backers have been gathering all across the country to figure out how to carry out his call for change.
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"President-elect Barack Obama's grassroots army -- who helped him smash fund-raising records, filled the ranks of volunteers, and took the campaign online"
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Amazing how there continues to be little to no coverage of this "fund-raising record" in the MSM. When funds are raised from international sources (ILLEGAL), or are raised from multiple donations that go over the established federal limits because of not turning on the Address Verification System on Obama's online donation site (something every other candidate *did* do!), of COURSE he shattered fundraising records! And yet you continue to ignore the fact that this was done. However, I'd guarantee that if a Republican candidate had done it, you'd be all over their a$$ like flies on sh*t, wouldn't you? What's good for the goose is never the same thing for the gander.
The MSM continues to disgust me with the continual fawning over this person who will be king.
If Linda really thinks Obama smashed those fund raising records for the reasons she stated and not because millions of average citizens cared enough about his candidacy and the future of their country that they figured out a way to donate a little bit each month, she is to be pitied for her ideological blind spot. It will almost certainly inhibit her ability to revel in the accomplishments of his presidency.
david dial - Obama's not president yet. His "accomplishments" are yet to be determined. So any reveling will have to wait.
And what a surprise - even though I posted several hours earlier in response to david dial (and other posts of mine in response to other comments on this "Political Intelligence" blog have shown up, Foon Rhee *still* refuses to allow any posts that includes information on the story in the NY Post about a regular citizen making donations under fictitious names and fictitious addresses, as well as using Canadian credit cards, giving david dial a bit of proof that a lot of the money raised was from foreign sources or people who were looking to hide that they were donating MORE than legally allowed....but I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Rhee would do this, considering the Boston Globe is just another mouthpiece (as so many other MSM sources are!) for Obama.
I'm really enjoying the "Open for Questions" feature on change.gov. It actually FEELS like I'm really participating in a democracy! Check it out, you get to submit questions and vote on other people's. Here's an example of one question I submitted: "I'm voting on these questions based on coherence, grammar and spelling, in addition to ripeness and priority. Am I doing it right?"
After reading and voting on multiple questions regarding Obama's willingness to open up the secret government UFO files, I felt it necessary to submit this question: "Why do so many Americans (judging by the questions I've seen) believe in the existence of extraterrestrials that vist this planet? Are they a subset of the Americans that believe in Invisible Beings that reside in the sky? And is Tom Cruise one?"
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of thoughtful questions and interesting proposals. There are also a shyte-ton from the unwashed, ungrammatical, mentally unstable masses.
This article states Obama's online backers will stay involved and supportive of him. As a person who supported Obama in the very beginning, I want to suggest that while it may look that way at this point, it is naive to think that his support from the primaries onward will remain intact for the following reasons: 1. Obama's support as an anti war candidate was misleading. He is not an anti war candidate, is is in favor of the war in Afghanistan and will loose the support of those who think that our foreign policy and the wars it engenders are not in the national interest and are immoral. 2. Obama is not a progressive. While he has a great deal to say about those who now look to lose he has yet to take a position about those tens of millions who have never had anything to lose. 3. His plans for economic revival are based on a 1930's model and for too many reasons to mention here this is not 1930, the economic environment is vastly different. These policies doomed to failure and providing no relief for either the middle class or the lower class, will reduce his online support. 4. His health care policies will do noting but throw more money at a system that is capable of absorbing all the money that was ever printed. This will further reduce the unrealistic expectations currently extant about Obama. There are other reasons why Obama will not keep the online support he has enjoyed to date and the most prominent of them is that Obama is basically a reincarnation of the middle of the road, stand for nothing policies of the Clinton years. His inclusion policy is preposterous and Obama has stopped just short on naming a flat worlder to head up the space program. For more about where Obama stands with his early supporters got to http;??www.saintpeterii.com Find out what a Gene McCarthy worker, a person who marched and worked for civil rights in the 60"s thinks of Obama and his resurection of the Clinton team.
"There are other reasons why Obama will not keep the online support he has enjoyed to date and the most prominent of them is that Obama is basically a reincarnation of the middle of the road, stand for nothing policies of the Clinton years."
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And you're just figuring that out NOW? The lack of clear-sighted intelligence of those who really thought that Obama was all about "change" continues to astound me. He's a product of Chicago politics - along with Massachusetts and Louisiana, one of the most corrupt political engines in the nation - and yet you all thought this was going to be The One to change it all. Really sad to see how far some people have fallen for his lines and speeches that were all fluff with no real actionable words. Well, you get what you vote for, folks!