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Quick Hits: Disenfranchised in Colorado; Students Top Givers to Obama Campaign

  • The New York Times reports that 6,400 voters in Colorado may be disenfrachised thanks to dishonest trainings and misinformation distributed by the Republican Secretary of State's office. Our friends at New Era Colorado are featured prominently in the piece fighting back against the disenfranchisement.
  • The Obama campaign raked in the cash in September, pulling in more than $150 million. If you missed it, campaign manager David Plouffe noted that Students were one of the top donors to the campaign, along with retirees.
  • For some reason, I've never seen this before. Check out YDA's Young Voter Revolution. Take the pledge and check out the tools and resources.
  • The Wall Street Journal business and technology blog looks at some data from Rapleaf and says that different swing states favor different social networks. For instance, Wisconsin youth favor Bebo, while Virginians favor Black Planet and New Mexican youth are on Hi5. This bears more looking into.
  • The National Review commissioned a hit piece on Campus Progress. Over at Pushback, Jesse Singal ably rips NR's piece to shreds.
  • Zack has an awesome idea to make FaceBook an even greater peer pressure machine to encourage voter turnout and political discussion.
  • Skaters in Wasilla fought Sarah Palin and won.
  • The LA Times has a rundown on celebrity PSA campaigns.
  • Meanwhile, Visible Measures tries to measure the impact of those viral videos to Get Out the Vote. The site looks at which of 4 major GOTV PSAs has the most views, and finds that Leo DiCaprio's celebrity-studded "Don't Vote" video comes out on top.
  • The Hill looks at the campaign's presence online and finds Obama ahead, but McCain catching up.
  • Are your parents pestering you about ACORN and "voter fraud?" Send them this article from the election law blog.
  • Mashable! tries to show a correlation between online activity on FaceBook and offline events in swing states, but doesn't do that convincing a job of it.
  • In The Nation, Cora Courrier asks if youth will finally swing the election.
  • Finally, a little music to start your day:



Obama '08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.

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October 20th, 2008 10:58am
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