| On Monday, I posted on One Million Strong about top advisers to the Clinton campaign disparaging Facebook and arguing that Obama's young supporters are not caucus-goers. If you missed the post, you can read it here.  After cross-posting on MyDD and DailyKos, I was eventually invited to post on TechPresident, a group blog that covers the intersection of technology and politics.
From there, the story was picked up by ABC News' The Note, which quoted my post, followed by another ABC blog Political Punch, Wonkette, and finally was broadcast on CNN (video here). There is also now a petition on Facebook protesting the comments. Rick Klein's post on The Note on ABCNews has drawn over 2,000 comments. Klein writes: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., wants a world where her sealed documents don't matter, but Obama's do (and where her Facebook friends are voters, but his aren't). [...] And what did the Clinton camp do to prompt an "Official Petition Against Hillary Clinton" on Facebook.com? Only insult Facebook membership writ large. This passage from Roger Simon's weekend Politico column from the Jefferson Jackson Dinner provides the context: "At least two of Hillary Clinton's upper-echelon advisers, Mandy Grunwald and Mark Penn, were decidedly unimpressed [with Obama's showing]. 'Our people look like caucus-goers,' Grunwald said, 'and his people look like they are 18. Penn said they look like Facebook.' Penn added, 'Only a few of their people look like they could vote in any state.' " We get the point -- caucus-goers are substantially more likely to have AARP cards than zombie applications -- but why disparage a cohort your campaign is trying to attract? "Good strategy: A week after finally setting up your campaign's organization to attract young people, tell them they won't vote anyway so their presence is irrelevant," Peter Erickson writes at TechPresident.com. "You can either dispute the idea that Obama has broad support among young people, or you can reinforce and disparage it, but either way you might want to make up your mind first before opening your mouth." More media quotes and video after the jump... |
