PBS NewsHour segment on 2008 online Mon. (with poll)

The PBS Newshour is doing a segment Monday on "the race online" - from their media email newsletter:

The Internet is quickly becoming an important tool in political campaigning, and should have a strong role in the 2008 presidential election.  The cause for this recent phenomenon is due largely in part to the rise of popular online video-sharing websites like YouTube.com, which have simplified the transfer and sharing of information through videos on the Internet.  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton became the latest politician to utilize the Internet for a campaign by announcing her plans to run for president on Saturday through an online video on her website.  She also plans to participate in three live online chats starting tonight.

The 2006 midterm elections also saw the powerful effect of the Internet, as the now infamous George Allen "macaca" online video derailed his campaign for re-election as senator of Virginia.

Jeffrey Brown will be interviewing Carol Darr, director of The George Washington University's "Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet."

Video, audio, and a transcript should be online after 9 pm ET at

http://www.pbs.org/...

There is nothing at the media page yet, but there is an mp3
of the segment online

http://www.pbs.org/...

update: Nothing very profound.  It would be have been better to have a variety of voices.

But we are "golden people" who are influencial news junkies.

"I think what you are going to see in 2008 are a lot of tracker provacatuers."

•  Anyone notice how nasty...

  the debate has become in the last 36 hours sinse HRC declared?

  by CTDemoFarmer on Mon Jan 22, 2007 at 03:12:13 PM PDT

•  This doen't

  appear to be too hot right now. But it soon will be. These folks have got to try and separate themselves from the pack. And the net is a very good way to start.

  by RustyBrown on Mon Jan 22, 2007 at 03:14:14 PM PDT

•  come on Ari

  sheesh

  You listed the first names of Newt and Rudy, doesn't Tom Vilsack (the guy from Iowa) even deserve to have his NAME listed?

  FFS.

  • SS

  p.s. Granted, he won't win, but he is a proud Dem who deserves (at least) to have his full name listed here.

  by Skeptical Spectacle on Mon Jan 22, 2007 at 03:14:30 PM PDT

•  Carol Darr????????

  they interviewed Carol Darr?????????????????????

  by Alice Marshall on Mon Jan 22, 2007 at 03:17:44 PM PDT

  •  They will in a few minutes

    Right now it is Susan Page and Dan Baltz with a general discussion of the campaign.

    by ari on Mon Jan 22, 2007 at 03:20:41 PM PDT

    •  When you do a search for her on google

      tThis post by Markos is the second result

      http://www.dailykos.com/...

      Here's a post that quotes her on the video announcements

      http://www.ipdi.org/...

      by ari on Mon Jan 22, 2007 at 03:29:52 PM PDT

•  Sorry from a former Iowa City resident

  I know I should have looked up the spelling of his name, but I wanted to post the diary before the NewsHour began.

  And I'm seeing I left out a lot of Republicans.

  I did live in Iowa City when I was a kid.

  by ari on Mon Jan 22, 2007 at 03:19:41 PM PDT

•  "2008" tag

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  While doing tag clean up we learned that many users use the year tag alone to designate events happening in various years.  So if writing about election events, you probably want to include the word "elections" with the year.  Please note the "s" at the end of the word.

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  by SarahLee on Mon Jan 22, 2007 at 07:17:58 PM PDT