Although many of the Democratic candidates, particularly all the frontrunners, are attending the Yearly Kos convention, a lollapalooza for bloggers, media, and party activists, it's clear Hillary is making some serious efforts to garner some blogger love. True, Daily Kos likes to hate on her (Daily Kos, though often filled interesting info and honest, relevant analysis, can be haters) and yet, here she is, defending them against Bill O'Reilly's scathing remarks about daily kos.
Besides her quick response to O'Reilly and generous remarks about kos, she's continued her blog-love efforts with this, rearranging her schedule completely in order to participate in Yearly Kos's small, break out sessions with the candidates. Even though she had already made it clear that she couldn't make the sessions due to scheduling issues (not the Rudy/Romney -let's-avoid-real-questions-from-Americans-incl-snowmen kind of scheduling issues) she's recognizing the importance the netroots have on campaigns. Interestingly, while we think of the net as only young people, almost 40% of fbook users are over the age of 35, 46% of myspace users are over 35 yrs, and more than half of youtube users are 35 yr to 64 yr (comScore). Clinton can reach out to us collegiates, and Grandma, all at the same time.
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3 comments:
What exactly did Bill O'Reilly say about Yearly Kos?
and Hillary cannot reach out to collegiates as good as Obama can.
O'Reilly said, on the 16th and 17th of July,
"All of those thoughts were posted on a vicious far-left website called the Daily Kos, one of the worst examples of hatred America has to offer."
and
"Because this is hate of the worst order. It's like the Ku Klux Klan. It's like the Nazi party. There's no difference here. People should die."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200707180006
As for Obama, I actually really agree with that. To us collegiate types, Hillary is a sign of the old world of politics, whether or not this is true, is a different story. However, Obama has a lot of appeal to us youngins for a few different reasons. THe first is that for a lot of us, it's just trendy. There are enough Clinton haters out there where it's not cool to support Hillary, but really cool to support Obama. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Dem through and through, and to see us involved and engaged is a great thing. We just are easily stirred by words, and Obama is a moving speaker. However, as a woman, I honestly feel like Clinton empathizes more with me. and as a voter, I think she's more experienced.
I agree with Ash...unfortunately Clinton may never reach the popularity that Obama has with college kids...but I also wouldn't count her out. There are many young people who support her...myself included.
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