Comments on: The Obama Campaign’s Tech-Savvy Revolution

By: 1011 Web Solutions | Building Your Brand Through Text Messaging

1011 Web Solutions | Building Your Brand Through Text Messaging — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:08:39 +0000

[...] & Optimization People have attributed much of President-Elect Obama's success to how his campaign embraced technology in new ways. However, technology isn't that new to political marketing. Political campaigns [...]

By: Brain-Jockey » Blog Archive » Obama’s Friend-Raising Trumps Fundraising

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:42:08 +0000

[...] Soren Dayton wrote, there are ways in which the Republican campaign organization exceeded Obama’s [...]

By: ChooseTheHero.com » Blog Archive » "The Left owns the Internet"

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:00:15 +0000

[...] our brother and sister GOP/conservative sites will be key participants in this effort. Soren Dayton illustrates how we can do this: You can make the fundraisers a little more efficient. You can make the GOTV [...]

By: No Straw Men : links for 2008-11-23

No Straw Men : links for 2008-11-23 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:03:00 +0000

[...] The Obama Campaign’s Tech-Savvy Revolution – Soren Dayton, Pajamas Media Let’s consider examples from fundraising, GOTV, and communications. (tags: Barack_Obama_2008) [...]

By: BlueRidgeForum » Obama Calling Up Grass Roots for Duties Now

BlueRidgeForum » Obama Calling Up Grass Roots for Duties Now — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:54:49 +0000

[...] Dayton of The Next Right explains why here on Pajamas Media” – “Obama’s secret [...]

By: jtron

jtron — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:34:37 +0000

AS we shrink into irrelevance, how about we consider why we are out gunned by the musicians, artists, educators, etc. of our time. Is it perhaps that our ideas are outdated and we fail to see the world at large in its current climate. Is culture, education, and science that scary? Not to those involved.

By: Bandit

Bandit — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:24:26 +0000

what the Internet is, is a community. It’s a community of people who don’t happen to live in the same place.”

It’s a community of people you don’t know, have enver and will never see and who may not actually exist. So much for reality based.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:14:46 +0000

GOP.com is boring. republicanforareason.com doesn’t work – I’ve signed up several times and never got a confirmation. Pathetic.

By: Keith_Indy

Keith_Indy — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:09:02 +0000

In the end, can Republicans learn something from the Dem’s about online fund raising? Not likely, unless they want to break the law.

Did they break the law? If the law isn’t strong enough, then the law and enforcement needs to be stronger. I’d put this at the top of the list of things Republicans need to make happen with campaign financing.

You know, I don’t think the problem was “not being conservative enough,” it was Republican politicians not being republican enough.

By: Despaxious

Despaxious — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:17:58 +0000

Being able to pilot a boat in fair weather and smooth seas does not indicate a good sailor. Any analysis of campaign strategies must take into account that Dem’s always campaign in favorable media conditions while Republicans are always trying to make their way into a gale force headwind. This is not an outright dismissal of things the Dem’s may have done well, but a caution in assessing how effective a particular strategy or technique really is.
For example a large part of Obama’s fundraising comes from small donation over the internet. However, considering Obama opened the door to campaign fraud by being the only candidate (Rep or Dem) to: a) Turn off all anti-fraud online checks (which rejects false names and international contributions); and b) Refuse FEC scrutiny of these small donations. Isn’t it interesting that half of his fundraising comes from these sources? Had a Republican done this the media would have descended on this story like a ton of bricks and quickly pressured the campaign to open up the books to the FEC. Instead they kept a lid on it and allowed Obama to take fraudulent donations (a number of bloggers donated fraudulently to prove the point).
In the end, can Republicans learn something from the Dem’s about online fund raising? Not likely, unless they want to break the law. And if they did we can be darn sure the media will expose them.