Stuck in 3rd Place, Edwards Campaign Begs for Avatar Attention

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)...
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Comments

Does it seem to say that no one has campaigned on mmo's before? umm, ay Ron Paul, what happend a week or two ago?

The reason he is not popular with young voters is because his campaign is focused on the middle class, a group dominated by 30-50 year old parents. He has made no mention of anything the under 30s are interested in or affect them directly.

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.

Young people are stupid?

@Zach

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.

If it's any consolation, so far, statistics have shown that the anti game candidates won't win the presidency.

I know Second Life boasts some huge numbers of people "playing" but I really have to wonder how many people are actually active on their servers and just how effective campaigning in said game actually is. I'm guessing it's really not unless you're trying to get the furry and sexual deviant vote (not that there's anything wrong with that).

@E Zachary Knight

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.

E. Zachary Knight
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.

If it weren't for the fact that Hillary has a decent chance of winning the Dem ticket I'd vote for Edwards. But as it stands now, Hillary does have a chance in winning the nomination and I don't want that to happen. Obama has a better chance of getting the nomination than Hillary so I have to go with him.

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 Dem race isn't interesting. They're all basically the same - party-line Democrats - and they only differ in a few key areas. I'm anti-Hillary because of her views on gaming. I really, really wish that there were bigger issues to use to decide my preferred Dem nominee but, alas, there aren't.

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.
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