Re: Local Politics and Social Media

Riche Zamor — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:35:35 -0000

Social media and local politics are not as simple as you make it seem. There are large challenges to pulling this stuff off, such as:

1) Most local races don't have the budget to pay someone to be an Internet Director

2) The name recognition of local candidates is not as large and the level of engagement in local races is not as great

3) In large cities, where you may see this type of stuff done because of the larger scale races, you tend to have lower adoption rates of new technology

4) The technology to run some really effective online campaigns is not affordable

Once you start getting into statewide races, such as gubernatorial races, and some large mayoral races, then maybe you can see this happening. But, I think we are a few years off from seeing this happen.

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