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Social Media’s Impact on the Midterm Elections

By Anthony Calabrese, Mashable Social media is changing the face of democracy in the U.S., and Facebook is leading the way. The 2010 congressional elections were just the latest example of how the social web is driving real-world change in ways the founding fathers never dreamed of. On Facebook, more than 12 million people used […]...
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Social media midterm election coverage plays big

By Craig Howie, Los Angeles Times Twitter, Facebook, Google and Foursquare all did their bit for democracy Tuesday with election-themed widgets and services appearing on their pages. Facebook featured an online vote counter, which appears at the top of a user’s feed and allows users to click to say they voted, which earns them an […]...
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Pledging Allegiance to ObamaCare Repeal

By Michael Tennant, The New American “They passed it without even reading it. But we’ve read it now. And it’s even worse than we thought.” “It,” of course, is the nearly 1,000 pages of legislation in two laws (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act) that created […]...
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Pledging Allegiance to ObamaCare Repeal

By Michael Tennant, The New American “They passed it without even reading it. But we’ve read it now. And it’s even worse than we thought.” “It,” of course, is the nearly 1,000 pages of legislation in two laws (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act) that created […]...
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New Data: Can Twitter Predict Elections?

By Dan Zarella, DanZarella.com With the 2010 midterm elections coming up on Tuesday, I decided to look into the correlation of candidates Twitter accounts and their recent performance in polls. I gathered a random sample of 30 senate, house and governor races from RealClearPolitics database of recent election polls and gathered each the number of […]...
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A Citizen’s Guide to a Free and Fair Election

While reports of voter fraud are increasing and potential recounts are looming nationwide, ASG President Bryan Rudnick has published “A Citizen’s Guide to a Free and Fair Election” for the 1776Coalition.com. The whitepaper can be used to assist campaigns, political parties, poll watchers and concerned citizens who seek to ensure our democratic republic remains intact […]...
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GOP Beating Democrats with Social Media for Midterm Elections

By Anthony Calabrese, MediaShift PBS If 2008 was the year that social networks like Facebook and Twitter broke through to mainstream America, then 2010 is shaping up to be the election year that’s defined by social media. Consider that three out of five Americans who consider themselves somewhat politically active are members of a social […]...
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Schumer, Townsend Spar In NY1 Debate

Senator Charles Schumer and Republican opponent Jay Townsend took part in their first and only debate of the campaign season Sunday, with each taking jabs at one another on several hot button issues including the stimulus bill and financial regulation of Wall Street. The live, hour-long debate sponsored by NY1 and its YNN sister stations […]...
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Schumer, Townsend Spar In NY1 Debate

From: NY1 News Senator Charles Schumer and Republican opponent Jay Townsend took part in their first and only debate of the campaign season Sunday, with each taking jabs at one another on several hot button issues including the stimulus bill and financial regulation of Wall Street. The live, hour-long debate sponsored by NY1 and its […]...
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In every election season, there’s a recount. Lessons from Bush and Franken.

By Jay Weiner, The Washington Post It is Wednesday, Nov. 3, in the wee hours of the morning after election night. From Chicago to Las Vegas, from West Virginia to Colorado, exhausted campaign managers are on their BlackBerrys and iPhones, talking, e-mailing and texting with election lawyers and party operatives in Democratic and Republican bunkers […]...