Personal Democracy Forum 2008
Note by Ms, Kathy Gill:
new kind of political activism
'net roots' v 'right roots'
jane hamsher - firedog lake - nov/dec 2004
valerie plame case - at a time where you could build a community based on opposition to gwb.
harriet - video of angry clinto supporter
ranting in front of a bank of network cameras
networks never covered it ... until it became a youtube phenomena
right was in a tough place having to defend an unpopular president
the left is not as cohesive
much more reaching into our own pockets of viability
we have made some choices
— increasing pressure from blogs like swampland, abc news, who have learned that people want to talk with those who are bringing them their news
— will jrl who blog keep their jobs v jrl who do not?
— we can contextual media narrative
major media narrative ' don't talk about the war '
which is what we did in the ned lemont and joe lieberman race
success was limited (congressmen elected on mandate didn't carry it out)
"have you had enough"
carol voisin
ricki lee jones & ...
channel energy into political action
we adapted this ad for 28 races
why is baron hill committing malpractice agasint kids
we flipped 4 of the 5 votes
liberal blogosphere is extremely white and male
people doing the blogging are more diverse
40-60 years old - reader - affluent
why is congressman rahm emanuel betraying our friedns and familitie
50% immigrant population
koren, polish and spanish newspapers
retroactive immunity to telecoms
steny hoyer says you're next
partnered with who?
blue do coalition
demo prez + congress .... we may lose our audience
i don't think that is going to happen
more of what is happening now
conservative house members in the center control the house
getting all this K street money right now
we are going to be doing a lot of work to try to break this up
blue america PAC v Retroactive Immunity
we raised $308,000 in about 72 hours
obama campaign has really shown people what can be done with online
$55 million in feb/mar without once attending a fundraiser himself
one good speech can break the cocktail circuit
patrick ruffini
e campaign organizers bush 2004 and RNC
now independent blogger
thenextright (new blog)
stimulate a new conversation on the right
1 - war
2 - fiscal constraint and earmarks
3 - conservative judges
red state represents essentially a fiscal, national security side of the coalition
when, in 2007, the conservative blogosphere provided raw ammunition for legacy right media talk radio ... immigration bill posted many hours (42?) before readable anywhere else. crowdsourcing analysis. made radioactive. death by a thousand tiny cuts.
huckabee represented a suprising to many people an active online community
long tail
homeschool blogs
came to symbolize a movement from astericks in polls than a serious contender
what about ron paul
are these people even part of the right roots?
enthusiasm driven
nov 5 campaign - implied that "ron paul" led this campaign
ron paul people have gone to every county and state delegates
in many cases take over county parties with little opposition
if you have a small well networked group ... can beat a large atomized group any day of the week
on- or off-line word of mouth candidates won in both respective primaries
what does this mean for the future of the movement
what will it take to unify ... a unifying grievance?
it could happen under president obama or mccain
how do we use this new movement to actually prescribe a positive agenda for the county. i think both sides of partisan battle h
is power based on blocking things, negative energy
what about something positive?
is opposition role better place for right roots?
if you look across the road, when conservatives are not in power they are more successful online
one kind of example
newt gingrich 'drill now, drill here' now has over a million signatures
dr lenore fennani
ind black and woman to get on the ballot in all 50 states - 1988 ran for prez as independent
a lot of obama's success if independents beging able to vote in open primaries
jane: they are not quite as free-swinging as the name suggests
1984 election - about 20% of american people ... reagan won when the indep independents were about 20 percent, not only about 6 percent
why are the mainstream, national security republicans not joining with the left-leaning ron paul conservatives
jane - there is a washington establishment that the left and right bloggers rally against
'net roots' v 'right roots'
jane hamsher - firedog lake - nov/dec 2004
valerie plame case - at a time where you could build a community based on opposition to gwb.
harriet - video of angry clinto supporter
ranting in front of a bank of network cameras
networks never covered it ... until it became a youtube phenomena
right was in a tough place having to defend an unpopular president
the left is not as cohesive
much more reaching into our own pockets of viability
we have made some choices
— increasing pressure from blogs like swampland, abc news, who have learned that people want to talk with those who are bringing them their news
— will jrl who blog keep their jobs v jrl who do not?
— we can contextual media narrative
major media narrative ' don't talk about the war '
which is what we did in the ned lemont and joe lieberman race
success was limited (congressmen elected on mandate didn't carry it out)
"have you had enough"
carol voisin
ricki lee jones & ...
channel energy into political action
we adapted this ad for 28 races
why is baron hill committing malpractice agasint kids
we flipped 4 of the 5 votes
liberal blogosphere is extremely white and male
people doing the blogging are more diverse
40-60 years old - reader - affluent
why is congressman rahm emanuel betraying our friedns and familitie
50% immigrant population
koren, polish and spanish newspapers
retroactive immunity to telecoms
steny hoyer says you're next
partnered with who?
blue do coalition
demo prez + congress .... we may lose our audience
i don't think that is going to happen
more of what is happening now
conservative house members in the center control the house
getting all this K street money right now
we are going to be doing a lot of work to try to break this up
blue america PAC v Retroactive Immunity
we raised $308,000 in about 72 hours
obama campaign has really shown people what can be done with online
$55 million in feb/mar without once attending a fundraiser himself
one good speech can break the cocktail circuit
patrick ruffini
e campaign organizers bush 2004 and RNC
now independent blogger
thenextright (new blog)
stimulate a new conversation on the right
1 - war
2 - fiscal constraint and earmarks
3 - conservative judges
red state represents essentially a fiscal, national security side of the coalition
when, in 2007, the conservative blogosphere provided raw ammunition for legacy right media talk radio ... immigration bill posted many hours (42?) before readable anywhere else. crowdsourcing analysis. made radioactive. death by a thousand tiny cuts.
huckabee represented a suprising to many people an active online community
long tail
homeschool blogs
came to symbolize a movement from astericks in polls than a serious contender
what about ron paul
are these people even part of the right roots?
enthusiasm driven
nov 5 campaign - implied that "ron paul" led this campaign
ron paul people have gone to every county and state delegates
in many cases take over county parties with little opposition
if you have a small well networked group ... can beat a large atomized group any day of the week
on- or off-line word of mouth candidates won in both respective primaries
what does this mean for the future of the movement
what will it take to unify ... a unifying grievance?
it could happen under president obama or mccain
how do we use this new movement to actually prescribe a positive agenda for the county. i think both sides of partisan battle h
is power based on blocking things, negative energy
what about something positive?
is opposition role better place for right roots?
if you look across the road, when conservatives are not in power they are more successful online
one kind of example
newt gingrich 'drill now, drill here' now has over a million signatures
dr lenore fennani
ind black and woman to get on the ballot in all 50 states - 1988 ran for prez as independent
a lot of obama's success if independents beging able to vote in open primaries
jane: they are not quite as free-swinging as the name suggests
1984 election - about 20% of american people ... reagan won when the indep independents were about 20 percent, not only about 6 percent
why are the mainstream, national security republicans not joining with the left-leaning ron paul conservatives
jane - there is a washington establishment that the left and right bloggers rally against
