Tag Archives: Biden

Sen. Biden’s Macaca Moment: Pandering or Unguarded?

By Lee Aase | Published: September 27, 2008
As part of the SMUG Political Science seminar series, we’ve previously looked at the use of social media by the McCain and Obama campaigns. The campaigns and their cohorts have created platforms for their supporters to interact and express themselves, and also have established outposts within the major networking sites like YouTube and Facebook to [...]
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Election 2008 on Twitter

By Lee Aase | Published: September 26, 2008
If you haven’t checked out this Election2008 site on Twitter, you really should. It’s a great way to see a real-time political pulse, although the population of the Twitterverse seems to be pretty skewed to the left/Obama side. Any Tweets that mention Biden, McCain, Obama, or Palin flow together in a continuously updated river of [...]
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Social Media 301: GOP and McCain Use of Web

By Lee Aase | Published: August 30, 2008
No campaign has used the Web as effectively as Barack Obama’s has, as his record-setting fundraising totals testify. He’s the second-most popular person on Facebook, after Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps. I have invited any SMUGgle with first-hand experience of the Obama on-line campaign (and who got the early-morning text message last Saturday about the Biden [...]
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Obama, Biden and a Call for a SMUG Associate Professor

By Lee Aase | Published: August 23, 2008
It turns out that mainstream media still got the scoop on Sen. Obama’s choice for VP, despite the campaign promise to break the news to supporters first via SMS and e-mail. Here’s the AP story: Obama’s decision leaked to the media several hours before his aides planned to send a text message announcing the running [...]
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