Robert Bluey had a very interesting discussion with rumored Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, the part that intrigued me was the side discussion on new media:
I think that the opinion leaders in the country, particularly those in primaries, are people who are very involved on the Internet and are watching the blogs and seeing what’s being said. They’re getting ahead of the news cycle by oftentimes weeks. And that kind of lead and that kind of awareness is very powerful in a primary setting, where the voters tend to be well informed and very involved in party politics.
Particularly in a primary kind of setting, you want to be very closely connected to the online world, to the blog world and make sure your perspectives are being understood, and that the misperceptions, which inevitably creep up, are being nipped in the bud. That’s something which, by virtue of the fact that I do not yet have an exploratory committee—that decision to file for that has not yet been reached—so I’ve sort of had to sit here and watch a lot going on without being able to respond and clean up some of the misperceptions that were out there. That’s something Stephen Smith is going to be able to do for us. I’m looking forward to that.
Originally posted on December 29, 2006 @ 3:33 am
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Romney seems to get what Edwards already does – that the 2008 Presidential election will be the “YouTube election” and Web 2.0 will replace the MSM in terms of speed and relevance.
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