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Other campaigns using Eventful

Alex Hunsucker — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:04:52 -0500

Actually, Ron Paul and John Edwards are not the only campaigns using Eventful extensively. Huckabee, Thompson, and Obama are all using the site in the same way to message supporters in primary states about upcoming events.

Obama has let everyone know throughout Nevada about all his appearances, as Huckabee has done in both MI and SC. Huckabee has even asked his supporters to Demand him around the country so he can use Eventful to notify his supporters and build crowds in future primary states. Meanwhile, Fred Thompson has posted an Eventful calendar on his website about his Iowa and South Carolina bus tours, not only letting his supporters know about events, but also all of Eventful's users, as well as our 500+ data syndicators.

Many of the campaigns are using Eventful to build crowds at campaign events through our local messaging tools, actually turning online activity into real world crowds.

Both political parties are ignoring the web

davidfarrar — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:58:20 -0500

While political candidates are increasingly cognisant of the communicative power of the web, I venture to say, most political parties are absolutely frightened to death of the web's vast communicative power. Whoever has the power to effectively communicate, has political power. It is precisely for this reason the communicative power of our major political parties has largely been taken over by the moneyed interest and the political elite, least someone tells the people.

As a classic example of this process in action, please go to," How to throw the 2008 election".

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The real power of this experiment

mistermind — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:56:20 -0500

It seems to me that the real power of this experiment is not so much to get the caucus results sooner - but to get better, fuller results. Aside from being ridiculously complex, the Iowa Democratic caucuses are also maddeningly opaque. Unbelievable as it may seem, the raw vote totals are never released to the public, only the calculated delegate totals. (See: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/opinion/18cranberg.html.) Your experiment, if it succeeds, will shed more light on this process than ever before.

Great idea....

shimanepdf — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:56:37 -0500

I'll add to my twitter following group.

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Not just faster

Patrick Ruffini — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:46:32 -0500

I'd be willing to bet this is as good as the media entrance polling. Nothing is as good as final results naturally, but I'd like to see how close something like this could get.

And in the case of the Democratic Caucus, we've never had a real sense of how support actually broke down pre-viability (raw votes are not reported), so this has the chance to surface new information, and tell the story of what actually happened inside the caucuses.

Faster != better

Fred Stutzman — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:18:13 -0500

While this is an interesting concept, I don't think it will prove that the internet is necessarily better. Faster, but not necessarily better. Of course, we've known the internet is faster than the press for over a decade now, so that's not surprising.