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McCain The First To Speak To MTV/MySpace audience

Posted by James Durbin
Fri, 2007-11-16 17:14

MySpace and MTV just announced that John McCain is going to be the next contender in Presidential Dialogues in New Hampshire on December 3rd, 7 p.m.EST. If you're in New Hampshire, there is still room in the audience - check in to the myspace.com/election2008 website to get selected.

So why is this important to the TechRepublican audience? At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it's because this event is the largest online audience of the youth vote, and the two previous speakers, Obama and Edwards, drew large numbers and had overwhelmingly positive response on the Flektor polling widget, which took real time voting results and broadcast them as the event went on.

Much of that was due to their online organization. If you can drive 10,000 people online at a specific moment, you can affect the polls. We've seen this online many, many times. My concern, is what happens when those same people go online to vote negatively.

I don't want to see either of these story lines on December 4. McCain fails to draw youth reponse to MTV appearance, and Youth Vote mainly negative for Republicans.

Check out the statistics: Since their debut, the video highlights from the two previous dialogues have been streamed approximately 700,000 times, and nearly 3.3 million people viewed the event on television

So if you're near a computer on Dec 3rd in the evening, make sure to sign on and watch the event. And if you're a McCain staffer - make sure you're organizing your e-mail list to drive supporters online.

Full Disclosure: Flektor is a client of Durbin Media Group, but this post is solely a personal message, and not authorized by Flektor or Fox Interactive Media, or indicative of their opinions.


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