townhall.com - 10/24/2008
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I moderated a panel last night at The National Press Club, and one of the Democrats on the panel made a very good point regarding how the internet has undermined the usefulness of a traditional campaign tactic: the...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 10/20/2008
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By Juliet Eilperin COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- GOP
vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin last night criticized the
automated calls the Republican National Committee has put out linking Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to former Weather ...
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Palin Criticizes Robocalls
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The Daily Bric-A-Brac: Out, Damn Traffic
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http://joinrudy2012.com/ But seriously, folks... Joe McCain is not in the best of moods these days. Matt Lewis writes on the death of robocalls.... Megan moderates a good debate between Byron York and Matt Taibbi on the economy. A second robocall suggests that Obama is a terrorist sympathizer. Question: how many people these days are giving obviously fake donations to the Obama campaign just for the heck of it? California's gay marriage-banning Prop 8? A toss. The oracle concedes he was ...
Daily Digest: Fighting Robos with Radar
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The Web on the Candidates
Will Going Public Be the End of Robocalls?: Townhall.com's Matt Lewis taps into an idea that's been making the rounds: old-school campaign tactics that thrive in secrecy, like very negative robocalls and mailers, might not survive the transparency the Internet can create. The Obama campaign is certainly hoping that's the case. The campaign has just released an Under the Radar map that plots robocalls and negative mailers on a map of the United States. The map not only tracks the slate of actions against Obama, it posts the audio or image of ...
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