Will copying Obama’s campaign tactics work in Ireland or not? Mulley does a pretty good job bringing together the reasons why the answer is no if you think that the tactics merely involved lots of bells and whistles courtesy of the Facebook.
Here’s the one stat you need to know to understand why Obama schooled McCain: [...]

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Ok, so you can’t really resist the temptation of the lates poll data on the presidential race? Nate Silver breaks down each of the 8 national tracking polls, and what time of day they’re released. It’s something special.
I’m still waiting to see the tightening, and Pollster’s average says maybe a little:

But the tastiest bit for [...]

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Online ads not the license to print money they were for a while, so the internet is doomed. Right?
In the UK:
Enders, a research group, estimates that the UK online display advertising market was at best flat in the third quarter, compared with the same period last year. Growth rates in recent years have been double [...]

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Tuesday I went onto Ryan Tubridy’s programme on RTE Radio 1 to talk about some Cold War ‘ostalgia’ as the kids in Eastern Europe call it these days, along with Constantin Gurdgiev, editor emeritus of Business & Finance, economist and superb dancer. He grew up in the Soviet Union. I grew up in the United [...]

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Open Mic Night for the grownups remaining (for the moment) inside what used to be called the Republican Party:

Peggy Noonan & Mike Murphy are the sane remnants of the party I grew up with. At least when they think the microphones are off, they seem to be living in the same universe as the rest [...]

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Which, if you’d watched the centre-right punditfest below — THREE HOURS BEFORE PALIN’S NAME WAS REVEALED –it’s not terribly surprising.

And that’s without the Britney Spears stuff. Maybe Paris Hilton’s available if Palin withdraws today.

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Damien has an interesting catch today -

Damien’s take:
This will scare the total crap out of the parties here in Ireland. Give someone a sign you paid for and let them fill in the bits? Lack of control, lack of control! This is what this whole new web thing is all about though and now [...]

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I’m not sure what to make of this. Got an email notifying me of a new Follower on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/VirtualPodium
Who does VirtualPodium turn out to be?
Turns out it’s a promotion, using the Daily Show/Colbert Report, with cooperation from Viacom in a promotion for Comcast, the cable company so beloved of the 27 million US households [...]

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…he were a Democrat. Or Karl Rove was. Observe:
via Sully.

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Even as I was writing the last entry, my fears about where the US presidential campaign was headed - signalled by the reptilian rasps some of my hard astarboard acquantainces were parroting here from whatever poisonous screed they were reading online - were being made manifest. John McCain, despite being a victim of this type [...]

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