From Wired Magazine, a look-through of the technology and techniques used to recruit supporters and votes. Pretty interesting...
The Obama campaign has been building, tweaking and tinkering with its technology and organizational infrastructure since it kicked off in February 2007, and today has most sophisticated organizing apparatus of any presidential campaign in history. Previous political campaigns have tapped the internet in innovative ways — Howard Dean's 2004 presidential run, and Ron Paul's bid for this year's Republican nomination, to name two. But Obama is the first to successfully integrate technology with a revamped model of political organization that stresses volunteer participation and feedback on a massive scale, erecting a vast, intricate machine set to fuel an unprecedented get-out-the-vote drive in the final days before Tuesday's election.
"I think what was recovered in this campaign is the sense of what leadership is, and what the role of the technology is, so that you get the best out of both," says Marshall Ganz, a public policy lecturer at Harvard who designed the field-organizer and volunteer training system used by the Obama campaign. "The Dean campaign understood how to use the internet for the fund-raising, but not for the organizing."
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/obamas-secret-w.html
for the link.
The only thing people need to know about Obama's "secret weapons" can be found in the works of Jeremiah Wright, James Cone, and Saul Alinksky as opposed to Madison and Jefferson.
As such, Obama's' secret weapons are not very secretive. Those who support Obama choose to suppress and ignore the documentation which shows the foundationional principles of Obama's worldview.
I heard the exact same thing about Clinton…
He didn’t take my hand gun away…
I didn’t get taxed to the poor house…
The economy didn’t implode…
Christianity wasn’t outlawed…
My wife and sisters weren’t forced to have abortions…
Yet I’m told this time it will all happen for sure if Obama is elected president, why can’t conservatives every say what they’ll do for the country, when do they run out of ideas?
You are leveling gigantic claims, Jayott. Please be more specific. What are the foundational principles of Obama's worldview, then, in your eyes? It seems that you are implying that his views are, at some level, un-American, or at least un-founding father influenced. Specifically, in what ways?
family are ALL on WELFARE !!! What is it with this heathen? Can't he float a couple of bucks to Uncle Omar, half brother George,Aunt Onyango??? He does the LEAST, for his own family! What does this liar say, that makes you ignorant fools ,think that HE is going to DO ANYTHING more for YOU??!?!?! Here's a scat sandwich to eat ,it tastes good,believe me!!!