Obama healthcare debate – view from the blogosphere

Barack Obama understands online media.  He showed his mastery of it during his successful run for the Presidency in 2008, marshalling everything from online donations, to volunteers for canvassing. However, the fact is that as he prepares today for the make-or-break speech on healthcare reform he (and his blogger followers) have lost the initiative to …

Hearty congratulations to Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States. The big difference between Obama and first Senator Clinton his Democratic rival and then Senator McCain his Republican rival lay in his power to motivate grass roots support and then harness it using the internet. Whilst his competitors relied on paid workers for many …

It has long been rumoured that much of the success of the Bush campaign in 2000 and 2004 was down to their superior understanding of social networks. Now a chance remark (highlighted by Valdis Krebs) by Bush’s campaigning guru Karl Rove on Obama’s election campaign draws attention to this. Barack Obama’s manager admitted to the …

Brian Stelter profiles Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder who has played a key part of generating the grassroots-up political support for Obama.