Chris Dodd
Joshua Levy, 01/04/2008 - 11:22am

Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee win the Iowa caucuses on a night of record turnouts, especially by youth voters; could Eventful demands be accurate predictors of primary results?; Elaine Young considers what effect social media may have had on last night's results; Ron Paul gets dissed, again, by the media; Chris Dodd and Joe Biden drop out, but Mike Gravel absolutely DID NOT; a new poll confirms that more Americans are getting their election news online; and what if the top GOP web consultants were trekkies?

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Joshua Levy, 01/03/2008 - 11:01am

It's finally caucus day! MySpace crowns Barack Obama and Ron Paul the winners of its own primary; Barack Obama tops the Wu-Tang Clan on Eventful's Hottest Demands page; Chris Bowers experiences three epiphanies; Earfl lets you record a testimonial about your favorite candidate; Mike Huckabee is losing traction online, but Hillary Clinton is getting more and more blog mentions; Mitt Romney holds a tele-townhall with voters, makes it easy to robo-call; is Obama advertising on Drudge?; Mike Huckabee thanks bloggers for "doing the Lord's work"; a former SC governor messes up his Huckabee endorsement; and is a Chris Dodd thank-you video to the blogosphere his swan song?

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Joshua Levy, 12/19/2007 - 11:17am

Glenn Greenwald takes Chris Dodd's FISA victory seriously, unlike most of big media; Colin Delany is impressed with the grassroots effort behind Dodd; BlogHer asks why the candidates won't speak with them; a partnership between Rock the Vote and AT&T gets out the vote, text-style; a new site compares the candidates, and Obama and Clinton supporters engage in a Microsoft vs. Apple-style switcher's war.

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Joshua Levy, 12/11/2007 - 11:05am

The FEC recommends that John Edwards not receive matching funds for the $4.3 million he raised on ActBlue, and DailyKos protests; a single Republican activist has a list of 71 million Christian voters, prompting the left to grasp for their own; Craig Newmark co-hosts an Obama fundraiser; Glamour magazine launches a group blog about the race; Barack Obama ba-reaks the 200,000 MySpace barrier; Chris Dodd speaks at Google, asks them to write his tech policy; and Matt Lewis says negative blogging is just hitting its stride.

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Joshua Levy, 12/07/2007 - 11:44am

Mike Huckabee is getting high negatives in the blogosphere, testing the theory that any publicity is good publicity; the campaigns aren't just reaching young people with social media, but fogies too; Mashable attempts a review of the candidates' use of social media; Rudy Giuliani finally gets his web on; and Robert Scoble briefly describes the use of the web by the campaigns.

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Joshua Levy, 12/05/2007 - 11:44am

National Public Radio's staff liveblogs their own presidential debate -- is this a first?; a French writer aggregates all she can find about the presidential race; why aren't the candidates blogging? We're just asking for a post here and there; Fred Thompson surrogate George Allen curiously evades Why Tuesday's questions about election reform; an IPDI blogger implores Ron Paul supporters to continue to do their own thing online, but wonders how their zealousness will translate for mainstream voters; Chris Dodd may be the first candidate to utilize Google News' commenting feature; the RNC organizers announce the inclusion of bloggers at the 2008 convention; and who's Iowa caucus training video is the most popular?

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Joshua Levy, 11/27/2007 - 11:36am

The CNN/YouTube debate nears, and Billiam the snowman rears his frosty head; but espite about 5,000 submissions, many are focusing on a handful of questions from snowmen, unicorns, and dragons; executive producer David Bohrman is "the most direct way for people everywhere... to participate in the debates; a new Ron Paul fundraising push is set for this Friday; electiononline.org reminds us that the election season is a dreary nine months long; and an argument from the Chris Dodd campaign for his video's inclusion in tomorrow's debate.

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Joshua Levy, 10/31/2007 - 10:19am

Forwarded emails from right-wing activists continue to spread false rumors about the candidates; William Beutler says Stephen Colbert is popular in the blogosphere, but not as popular as other candidates; once again, is the left better at the web than the right? No, says Jon Henke, though they still have a few things to learn; a "truth-boating" video drudges up old accusations about Hillary Clinton; and Chris Dodd's Talk Clock is back! Pez!

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Joshua Levy, 10/24/2007 - 10:55am

Barack Obama continues to take hits from the progressive netroots; RedState makes the mistake of banning Ron Paul supporters from its site; new Ron Paul graphs fun; Mashable posts a primer on online politics; Why Tuesday's Jacob Soboroff his heading to Iowa, and wants us to know exactly how the caucuses work; netroots darling Chris Dodd shows up on FireDogLake; and details on his second place finish in a DailyKos straw poll.

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Joshua Levy, 10/03/2007 - 10:51am

Slate writers on the glories of Google Suggest; James Kotecki officially joins the Politico; are DailyKos' traffic numbers artificially inflated by Sitemeter?; the lack of social conservatives online; techPresident is profiled by the Washington Post; Leon Wolf leaves the Brownback campaign; Marc Ambinder thinks Chris Dodd's web team is the most innovative out there; Barack Obama and the 21st-century fireside chat; a report from Elizabeth Edwards' meetup with mommy bloggers; and Obama's blog outreach guy leaves the campaign.

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