Net War Room for Bush vs Kerry Debate

ancice writes "Article by Wired. Seems like Bush and Kerry are going to battle in cyberspace. The Bush Team is going to have a War Room to provide live rebuttals to thousands of conversative blogs. Not much info on Kerry's response though. This seems like a good use of the Information Super Highway. Would be interesting to see how this War Room will affect the election. Will this tactic be successful or will it be information overload? Worse still, will technology be exploited? Tune in on Thursday."

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Just a reminder

[wizarddc]

The polls held directly after the first debate between Bush and Gore in 2000 had Gore winning, albeit it by a slight margin. But after the right wing spin machine got going with a full head of steam within three days those same polls showed Bush winning them by a wider margin than Gore had, and that's been the "result" ever since. Mechanisms like these, where the campaigns themselves directly distribute talking points and rebuttals directly after the debates were generally exclusively a Republican tool, while the Democratic party simple played ctach up and defense. It's interesting to see that the Bush squad has put together a better plan for distributing their version of the events than Kerry's team has, but it's not surprising. Perhaps they'll throw something together since this news has come out. I'm sure they're will be a recptive audience to it.

Re:In defense of ideological uniformity

[isaac]

I wrote civil messages on DU which people seemed to enjoy responding to and I was deleted simply because I wasn't a liberal. I don't think that would have happened on FR.

I don't self-identify as a either a liberal or a conservative, but my FR account was summarily deleted when I merely posed the question as to whether Jeb Bush could face eviction from the governor's mansion as a result of his daughter's conviction of a drug offense. (This was back when the US Supreme Court upheld a federal law permitting eviction of family members of those convicted of drug offenses from public housing even if they had no knowledge of the crime.)

My experience doesn't suggest that Freepers are willing to put up with any sort of uncomfortable questions.

-Isaac

Re:In defense of ideological uniformity

[IndependentVik]

What the fuck was he thinking? That maybe the law of the land applies to you even if your surname happens to be "Bush"? Frothing partisan indeed.