angrydragon
01-26-2008, 03:50 PM
http://techpresident.com/blog/entry/20308/fred08_com_an_outside_insider_s_view
Lessons Learned
I share all of this anecdotally in the hopes of illustrating something for GOP campaigns (and more broadly for campaigns in general). I'm afraid that the withdrawal of Fred Thompson will lead people to conclude that the model was wrong. I really don't feel it was.
As I said, I think the Thompson Internet operation, in the early days, and in the final days, was really second to none. Political campaign professionals should study the Thompson effort not as a case study in what went badly, but as an example of what was going very well, and could have been extraordinary had it not been for the media's obsessive demand for 'the tried and true tactics of the 1980s'.
As an example of the strength of Thompson's online effort, look at the Thompson campaign blog and you'll see something remarkable for GOP candidates - comments. And not just a few comments, but hundreds and even thousands of comments.
Rudy's blog doesn't allow comments. Romney's gets a few per post. Ron Paul just recently launched a blog (despite the fact that blog software is largely free). He currently gets between a handful and a few dozen comments.
More at...
http://techpresident.com/blog/entry/20308/fred08_com_an_outside_insider_s_view
Lessons Learned
I share all of this anecdotally in the hopes of illustrating something for GOP campaigns (and more broadly for campaigns in general). I'm afraid that the withdrawal of Fred Thompson will lead people to conclude that the model was wrong. I really don't feel it was.
As I said, I think the Thompson Internet operation, in the early days, and in the final days, was really second to none. Political campaign professionals should study the Thompson effort not as a case study in what went badly, but as an example of what was going very well, and could have been extraordinary had it not been for the media's obsessive demand for 'the tried and true tactics of the 1980s'.
As an example of the strength of Thompson's online effort, look at the Thompson campaign blog and you'll see something remarkable for GOP candidates - comments. And not just a few comments, but hundreds and even thousands of comments.
Rudy's blog doesn't allow comments. Romney's gets a few per post. Ron Paul just recently launched a blog (despite the fact that blog software is largely free). He currently gets between a handful and a few dozen comments.
More at...
http://techpresident.com/blog/entry/20308/fred08_com_an_outside_insider_s_view