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A Preview of Election 08 - Podcasting Politicians

Video Blogger writes "The LA Times predicts that the 2008 election will feature the rise of Podcasting Politicians, as strategists from both parties try to ride the latest trends to secure a victory in 2008. 'You'll not only be able to text people with messages, you'll be able to raise money, deliver video, audio, create viral organizing -- where one person sees something really interesting and it gets passed on and on,' says Donnie Fowler, a Democratic strategist."

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  1. Does this mean we'll soon see... by yroJJory · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Bill Frist Post!?

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    Jory
  2. Re:Nothing by Bastard+of+Subhumani · · Score: 5, Funny

    With spam going one way and pork going the other, we're going to need bigger tubes.

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    Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
  3. 2008 by conn3x · · Score: 3, Funny

    Best thing about 2008 is Bush --;

  4. the winning ingredient by macadamia_harold · · Score: 4, Funny

    The LA Times predicts that the 2008 election will feature the rise of Podcasting Politicians, as strategists from both parties try to ride the latest trends to secure a victory in 2008.

    And as we've all seen, the latest trend in internets technology is tubes. That's right, not a big truck, but tubes.

  5. Re:Why podcast? by aersixb9 · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're not individuals, they're a group. The dems and reps are the ruling party, and they print the ballots. Bribes go directly to them. And the only proof I have of this, besides the common knowledge of corrupt politics, is my personal experiences interrogating politicians via torture. They are very bad people, I swear, although I could be lying. There is little common knowledge of the censorship that they impose upon the media via the laws that their party predecessors passed, and the people who appear on the television and/or podcasts are the actors employed by this ruling party. The proof is the reason that these politicians run for office, perhaps? Do most politians have a reasonable, and vocal agenda, or do they simply run for no particular reason? Other reasons, that may or may not constitute proof may be such things as the missing information from the common knowledge of the source of materials (the earth), nor any pictures in existance on the new, uncensored media of the internet of a hole in the ground deeper than 3 feet that matches the picture of the hole in my randomly located backyard. If there was no evil group in control of the government, why is the information of the layers of earth nonexistant? (That is, the different colors and densitys of clay, each one 3 feet deep, everywhere and anywhere on earth. Each layer is well defined, and a different color. No pictures of these layers exist on the internet, or anywhere else. I'll provide a picture if someone wants to host it...although it's easy to verify with a shovel if you don't believe me.)

  6. In other news: by dud83 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Congress is absolutely baffled as the winner of the 2009 Presidential Elections turned out to be a beefed up version of A.L.I.C.E, deployed as a marketing scheme for Intel to show off their new Octal Core processor!

  7. Is it a bad sign... by FusionDragon2099 · · Score: 2, Funny

    that I read the headline as "Purchasing Politicians"?