Archive for barack obama

Daily View 2×2: 20 September 2009

20 September 2009 , , , , ,
It’s Sunday. It’s 7am. It’s time for the Daily View, today with a special Trojan Horse supplement. 2 Big Stories Obama attempts to revive Middle East peace efforts So reports the BBC: Mr Obama will first hold separate talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the White House says. The three men, who will be [...]

Is Barack Obama already thinking about job hunting?

7 September 2009 ,
I only ask because he’s got a profile on LinkedInk and is keeping it up to date…

Would a Barack Obama style campaign really work in the UK?

3 September 2009
Barack Obama’s campaign is often portrayed as being an excellent example of a highly organised grassroots operation, tapping into the enthusiasm of millions around the country and turning that into money, help and votes. But was the real secret of that grassroots organisation having lots of staff rather than having lots of enthusiastic volunteers? That [...]

“Soc-Nets and Web Strategies Can’t Replace Door-to-Door”

28 August 2009 , , ,
An interesting piece from the American Campaigns & Elections site which acts as a salutary reminder that, for all the impressiveness of Obama and his use of the internet, there’s rather more to campaigning: Two recently released surveys on how Americans perceive brands and make decisions gives us geeky political junkies an idea of how different campaign [...]

How are British parties responding to the social media successes of Obama?

27 August 2009 , , , ,
I’ve recently answered a few questions about political parties and their use of social media, sent to me by Vincent Bailey, a student at Cardiff University completing a masters degree in Political Communication. He is looking at the use of new media by the main three parties in the UK, with reference to the Obama [...]

What happens when you change your email address?

23 June 2009 ,
Winding up usage of my old work email address in the last few weeks, after using it for nearly a decade, has given me far more experience than I’ve ever wanted about the idiosyncracies of trying to change your email address on different lists and for different organisations and firms. (Double black marks to the people running [...]

How good was Obama’s campaign?

16 June 2009 , ,
Cross-posted from The Wardman Wire: I’ve blogged before about some of the myths around Obama’s campaign – the exaggerated tales of seas of small donors and soaring turnout. Now it’s time to look at how the votes played out across the country and see what it tells us. The US Presidential election is (with some minor exceptions) [...]

What did Obama get wrong?

12 March 2009 , , , ,
Liberal Democrat Voice held its first ever fringe meeting at the party’s Harrogate spring conference. The room was so packed that a wall even had to be taken down by conference centre staff, doubling the space available, so that more people could safely fit in to the room. I was speaking alongside Ed Davey MP [...]

Barack Obama: the theoretical physicist

30 November 2007
I’ll say this about Mr Obama: I’m impressed. Not only did I not know of his detailed knowledge of the universe’s underlying structure and the fundamental forces shaping it, but he’s not afraid to talk about such weighty* issues on the campaign trail. As he revealed to the good folk of Ames: “The whole universe [...]
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