Online Campaigning

At last week's Journalism Day at Ohio University, one of the panels featured the former Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Rosemary Palmer, and her campaign manager, Anthony Fossaseca.

While the online world certainly has affected journalism in many ways, it also has the potential to change campaigning. It allowed Palmer's primary campaign against incumbent Dennis Kucinich to gain some attention.

By producing short and lively videos, her campaign was able to get its message out on YouTube. Even Scott Milburn, a former press secretary for many prominent Republican politicians, applauded their efforts.

Here are links to some of her commercials:
Super Bowl Ad #1
Introducing the HopeMobile

(Milburn really riled me up every time he referred to the DEMOCRATIC Party as the DEMOCRAT party. Apparently the former makes them sound democratic, and you can't have that if you want the REPUBLIC Party to be successful. Although your party convinced the gullible to say "death tax" instead of "estate tax," you have a long way to go on this silly new bit of re-framing, Scotty.)