Political Equinox

America hasn’t seen a marketing machine similar to the Obama campaign for President in years (if ever), and I would be awful surprised if this well-oiled machine didn’t pull out a victory in November.

While Barack Obama is an exciting person, it is his campaigns unmatched ability to implement an excellent marketing strategy that revolves around creating energy and brand recognition.

Branding

Obama has rolled out the most comprehensive branding strategy of any presidential candidate ever, find me someone who has done a better job and I’ll show you how Obama tops it. No candidate has ever put out a stronger message to America through slogans, logos, websites, and literature.

The branding …

Tags: America, Barack Obama, Branding, candidate, Charlie Gibson, Illinois, Internet, IRS, John McCain, mccain campaign, obama, Oil, president, republican, ron paul, strategy, web

Found this on the Internets. I guess Neil and I are running for president now…

Here’s Neil’s election coverage…

And here’s mine…

Tags: Internet, IRS, president

When you picture Wikipedia, you don’t really think of a political battle. However, recently the “admins” are having battles among themselves as to what the direction of Wikipedia should be.

Open ‘em up & knock ‘dead

Some are falling on the side of letting most everything fly. With the obvious exceptions to spam and totally worthless articles, these folks would like to provide a wealth of knowledge on everything from Maywood City, CA to the White House.

They would rather leave in place the current system of calling an unfinished article a “stub,” which encourages further research and development on a particular subject.

For example, a few Wikipedia Administrators (which apparently is a rather coveted position that takes an awful lot of …

Tags: Internet, wikipedia

This post is part of a two part series. Neil Kelty will be commenting on the Republican Primaries while Patrick McAlister will soon follow with the Democratic Primaries.

If you didn’t notice, yesterday was Super Tuesday. The big news yesterday was the “Huckacomeback.”

Mike Huckabee was considered to be the John Edwards of the Republican Party. You know, the I’m in the race, but not really type of candidate. The only problem with that notation is that Huckabee nearly won several states. His big loss was Missouri, that hurt. Big time. Those 58 delegates actually put him 116 behind where he would have been. (I guess if you want to be all mathematical you could say 58, but since Huckabee could have …

Tags: candidate, fort wayne, huckabee, Internet, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, mitt romney, president, republican, ron paul