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McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-we're-getting-somewhere dept.

Vote McCain in 2008! writes "McCain's campaign is doing everything it can to erase Obama's online advantage, this time they ambushed Obama by detecting edits to his website when he updated some of his policy positions. This isn't the first time the Republicans have shown up the Democrats with their web savvy — you may remember the previous reports about the Republican Web 2.0 Consultants and their online campaigning game. This just proves that old Republicans can learn new tricks." Assuming the spider adheres to robots.txt, this is clever and well done.

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  1. muahaha, gotcha... by ckuttruff · · Score: 5, Funny

    McCain Camp:
    So through the course of our research we've found that you've modified some of the sections on your policy positions...

    *coughs (and that you have twenty times the traffic we do)

    1. Re:muahaha, gotcha... by paeanblack · · Score: 5, Funny

      So through the course of our research we've found that you've modified some of the sections on your policy positions...

      *coughs (and that you have twenty times the traffic we do)

      How else do you expect people to keep up with all of those policy position changes?

  2. Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref. by gilroy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sadly, everyone's gonna end up voting for the Brain Slug Party... again.

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  3. We have unequivocal proof... by languagehacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that someone spending almost all their time going across the country talking to people about different issues actually changed his mind about where he stands on certain topics. As Republicans, this is foreign to us, and upsetting to think about.

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  4. Re:New Meme by neomunk · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, you're trying to be cute, but if you roll the die a thousand times hoping that NEXT TIME it'll wash your dishes instead of providing the information on one of the die's faces, you've touched upon what the GP is talking about.

  5. Re:New Meme by Ihlosi · · Score: 5, Funny
    I hear one definition of insanity is repeating the same action while expecting a different result each time.

    I knew it: Quantum physics and statistics are insanity.

  6. Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref. by Hotawa+Hawk-eye · · Score: 5, Funny

    ALL HAIL PRESIDENT HYPNOTOAD.

  7. Numbers? by XanC · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm pretty sure that federal revenue goes up when taxes are cut.

  8. Re:Oblig. Futurama Ref. by pluther · · Score: 5, Funny

    To be fair, the libertarian rants on Slashdot typically center around how the weak should be left to die

    And the Democrats want to eat babies and the Republicans want to drink blood.

    Yeah, but at least they lie about it.

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