techPresident - Bob Barr - Comments

Paris Hilton

Freedomfighter — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:59:07 -0400

Her reply ad is also far more complimentary of McCain than what could be expected. She mocked him and mocked herself but than supported drilling now.

He may not win the nomination

jchristophm — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:47:54 -0400

"... and as the only candidate for his party’s nomination who has actually won a significant election, will likely be the Libertarian candidate this fall."

First, Mike Gravel is also seeking the LP nomination. It may have been like a billion years ago, but he did win a couple of Senate races.

Second, you obviously don't hang around with many Libertarians. Win/loss records, ability to raise funds, and national prominence have historically been only VERY small factors in LP nominating races. Trust me, the LP is worse than the Democrats with respect to factional in-fighting. Like academics, third-party politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Email issue

Luigi Montanez — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:30:01 -0400

This issue has now been clarified for me by Terra Eclipse, and the correction is posted above.

Email came from Barr campaign's service

Luigi Montanez — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:51:29 -0400

The email didn't come from a simple tell-a-friend form -- it came from a pay-to-send email marketing service. As you'll see in the Reply-To and Mailed By fields, the email originated from cmpgnr.com, which is the domain the email marketing service Campaigner.com uses. All other Bob Barr emails have also come from this service. This makes sense, as the Ron Paul campaign used the more premium, high volume service (CampaignerPro), and both campaigns have the same technology consultants.

So it may be a case of someone messing up and putting an @ronpaul2008.com email address in a Bob Barr blast. But, (and this is a big but), if it were a regular Bob Barr email blast, why the need to put "A Message from former Congressman Bob Barr" in the subject line? Presumably if I'm on Barr's list (which I was at the time), I know who the guy is. Repeating the sender's name in the subject line is standard practice when sending an email to an audience that will be unfamiliar with the sender.

The Ron Paul e-mail

Tom Readmond — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:36:05 -0400

The e-mail on behalf of Barr may not be legit. I had this happen on a campaign earlier this year, when an e-mail from ron@ronpaul2008.com went out claiming to endorse our candidate. Finding this hard to believe, I contacted a friend in the Paul campaign, and after some digging with the IT folks, it turned out someone had used the campaign website's Tell A Friend function to send an e-mail, and had entered the Ron Paul address as their own. In the end, it didn't have much effect. Paul's supporters aren't dumb.

Yawn about Bush......

Freedomfighter — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:42:31 -0400

Clinton is running for President, not Bush. The anti-Clinton Facebook group reached a million last month.

1,000,000 Members- November, 2008 GOAL MET 4/18

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2243510858

Spirit of 92

Tom Readmond — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:22:54 -0400

Looks like this group is intended for Clinton alums. Most of the officers list some capacity like communications, advance, etc. The legalese (and lack of anything else) in the description is downright creepy though.

Lamont Williams, who cares?

shimanepdf — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:50:25 -0400

Guys, this a a story with no there, there.

Who cares. Robo calls are made all the time with "talent" either known (Jack Nicolson for Hillary or Jay Z for Obama for example) or not known.

This is a story with no there, there.

WVWV does progressive work on voter registration. They may not be super talented when it comes to operational excellence, but they are not evil Clinton supporters either.

Many people have said that these calls are illegal and that the NC AG (Cooper, who I testified with in the US Senate) is investigating.

The bottom line?

Almost every political campaign and non-profit breaks the "law" on robo calls.

- Few let people know who sponsored the call.
- NO ONE gives the listener a way to opt out of future calls.

This will be dead Wednesday.

What will not be dead, is the increasing use of robo calls by all sides to invade the privacy of voters as campaigns continue to use technology to "outsource" true grass roots support to automated phone calls rather than phone volunteers.

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