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Random Thoughts Larry King Style (9/14/2006)

The George Allen campaign has launched a blog.  Anything they do online is just more material for Wonkette at this point…Scott Baradell from Idea Grove has a great post on 101 Ways to Brew Up a Great Idea.  Going to Vegas is by far the best suggestion…Joe Lieberman's campaign has quietly disabled comments on their blog. ...

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Top 10 Political Moments on YouTube

We've posted frequently about the impact video sharing sites like YouTube are having on politics. Sometimes it's better to show than to tell. So here are ten political themed videos that have made the rounds on YouTube. They demonstrate the power YouTube can have in catching politicians in “oops” moments and spreading funny/weird videos that appear on CSPAN and Comedy Central....

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Washington Post Launches Political Ad Database

I’m not sure how I missed this, but the Washington Post recently launched a political ad campaign database called Mixed Messages. It looks like the Post will be trying to catalogue all the political ads produced by the various candidates/national committees this cycle.

They’ve done a really nice job with this....

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Lieberman Campaign Launches Blog

In a pretty gutsy move, Joe Lieberman’s campaign launched a blog with open comments right at two months before the election.

And in the least suprising development pretty much ever, open warfare has broken out in the comments area of the blog between Lieberman supporters/haters.

I think this would have worked a lot better had it launched before the online discussion around this race had gotten so poisonous....

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On the DNC’s Party Builder

Yesterday the Democratic National Committee launched Party Builder, a social networking tool attached to their main website, www.democrats.org. This comes on the heels of a similar effort the Republican National Committee launched a while ago called MyGOP.

Party Builder is a nice, full featured tool. The folks behind this did a good job....

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