Why Tuesday
Joshua Levy, 02/19/2008 - 11:53am

Pushing the next president to use participatory media; GOP.com launches the Obama Spendometer; if we get President's Day off, shouldn't we get Election Day off?; comparing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's organizing philosophies; Ron Paul staffers describe his online campaign, deride Obama has too top down; how do offline GOTV operations actually work?; Vermont's having a primary too, and ice cream moguls Ben and Jerry are riding around in their ObamaMobile to support Barack.

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Joshua Levy, 01/14/2008 - 11:25am

A new wiki documents the Clinton campaign's use of racialist attacks on Barack Obama; discovering some distressingly racist and homophobic content in Ron Paul's newsletters; OpenCongress launches MyOpenCongress; Why Tuesday talks to Lee Brenner of MySpace Impact; a video on Current calls out Mitt Romney about his dismissive approach to medical marijuana; and a request for a recall of New Hampshire primary votes is approved.

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Joshua Levy, 01/10/2008 - 11:08am

Journalists, bloggers, pollsters, and pundits flagellate themselves for being so wrong about New Hampshire; Glenn Greenwald calls the media "adolescent, coddled narcissists"; one blogger thinks Memeorandum is the best way to get election news; Why Tuesday continues to get the cold shoulder from Mitt Romney; Barack Obama is the most-mentioned candidate on Twitter; Obama and Clinton release post-New Hampshire fundraising numbers; and Bill Richardson drops out, yet there are still six GOP candidates!

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Joshua Levy, 11/01/2007 - 10:59am

The New Hampshire blog Blue Hampshire gets a profile in the Wall Street Journal; Why Tuesday gets responses about election reform from 11 out of 16 candidates; two conservative bloggers filed an FEC complaint against Hillary Clinton; are Ron Paul supporters using botnets to send out thousands of spam emails?; Joe Trippi and Cyrus Krohn, mano-a-mano; Ed Markey taps the opinions of DailyKos readers; and Stephen Colbert's Facebook group is generated an uptick in registered voters.

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Joshua Levy, 10/30/2007 - 10:40am

Off The Bus and Scoop08, two citizen-journalism efforts tracking the election, get the New York Times treatment; a Republican CNN/YouTube debate is confirmed (I thought that already happened?); what is the meaning of Stephen Colbert's continued popularity on Facebook?; Why Tuesday posts some responses to its Candidate Challenge; and Barack Obama participates in the MTV/MySpace online dialogue, and does well (at least that's what this video-disabled blogger heard).

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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, 09/27/2007 - 10:31am

Using Me.dium to chat with viewers of today's MTV/MySpace dialogue with John Edwards; Why do we vote on Tuesday? The "Why Tuesday" video explains; the return of Chris Dodd's Talk Clock; Rudy Giuliani beams into supporters homes using the "world wide web"; the finalists for Mitt Romney's ad contest have been announced, but no Slate videos are represented; and Chris Dodd sense a new kind of email.

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