Political Campaigning in Mid 2003

Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:47:00 -0400
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Lessig suggests that “building a community around your candidacy” is going to be the future of electioneering.

American’s for Dean, are appealing for the Internet vote with astonishing persuasiveness:

Warm up your news aggregator’s coz here the feeds of the future: “A pugnaciously populist insurgent candidate defeats a tax-cut-empowered $200+-million-campaign-budget-wielding popular war time president with a social-nodal-RSS-conjoined-web-network run on open-source-software-fueled by smart-mobbing-net-campaign-adhocracies straight out of a Cory Doctorow Creative Commons tagged short story.”

Nocturnal can-do hacking ethos and gumshoe populist politics are the perfect patriotic fit. Special interest money committee formed candidates are itching for an expunging.

While Arnold Schwarzenegger has a slightly more traditional strategy:

“T3 is best seen as a $175 million campaign ad for Schwarzenegger’s bid to be California’s next Governor. Tough, buff Arnold helps kids, keeps bad machines from despoiling the environment and saves the state, all without spending the taxpayers’ money,” wrote Time Magazine movie critic Richard Corliss.