January 10, 2008
While top contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton slug it out for the Democratic presidential nomination, that gurgling sound you hear could be the death rattle of the John Edwards campaign.But Edwards isn't giving up without a fight. A post on the John Edwards 08 Blog rallies young supporters to push the former North Carolina senator in online worlds:
Senator Edwards needs as much young support as possible to combat the wave of young support that the other candidates are receiving. How about doing some campaigning on-line in the Virtual worlds (Second Life, etc., you know where they are)...
a little canvassing avatar to avatar... set up a campaign office, post signs, I don't know use your imagination, right? What do you think... maybe the Senator Edwards' Campaign can be the first to ride the virtual voting wave, and it will carry out here into the real world.
You never know. "We are only limited by our imaginations"... anyone up for creating, instead of riding, the wave? ARE YOU AWAKE?
GP: It's interesting that this post makes no mention of Edwards' Second Life HQ (which was vandalized by griefers shortly after it opened last year)...
Comments
I still don't understand why Hillary has so much support from young voters. Maybe it is because she is tapping the young feminist movements.
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I don't understand either what people see in her. As a feminine figure, she basically stayed with a guy who was slutting around behind her back, which I think sends a crappy message, and as a politician she is a scam artist (i.e. opening an office in NYC just so she could run for senator there.) A merciful god would see to it that she keeps her disgusting mullet out of our lives.
Anyway, about Edwards, a gambit in second life will amount to a bucket full of headlight fluid.
No, the reason he's unpopular is because he's an idiot.
He tries to talk about uniting the two Americas, meanwhile he lives in a 25000 square foot MANSION in South Carolina and does no charity work.
He talks about creating a group that would go to nations in strife and bring not weapons but food and water and medicine (peace corps), and doesn't realize THAT IT ALREADY EXISTS, nor does he realize that any time the peace corps goes to a country with a war going on, the only reason they make it home safe is because military units (or, more often than not, BLACKWATER) go with them.
As for Hitlerry, she has support with young voters because she is Bill's wife, and so all the kids think 'ooh, he'll be in charge again!' without realizing that HILLARY is, in fact, the man in that relationship.
focused on the middle class to give everything to poor... he really needs to focus more on the middle, schools and the economy, he waffles a bit to much for my tastes but at least he is not a walking waffle like mcain or hillery.
Ultimately though my decision doesn't matter. I won't be able to vote in my state's primary, I'm too young (by less than a month grrrr).
The Republican race - now that's interesting. They all represent a different aspect of the Republican party and very different constituencies.
At any rate, on topic: Edwards' campaign for "Avatar Attention" is too little, too late. In fact it's "much" on both those counts. I like Edwards, I do, but he's got about as much of a chance at winning the Dem nomination as I do of coming up with a fitting metaphor.