If you ask Mark Penn, the whole Barack Obama-as-online-phenomenon storyline has been considerably overstated.
In fact, Obama’s victory in the presidential primary was fueled more by “traditional media” than “social media,” Penn, a former top Hillary Clinton strategist, said last night.
Penn was speaking at a 92 Street Y panel discussion about public relations when the moderator, Read More
Photographer John Conn, one of the few Barack Obama-free vendors in Union Square these days, is looking forward to the end of the election. Over the past three months dozens of artistically inclined young thirty-somethings, seasoned street merchants and newly minted idealists have been selling election gear on 17th Street between Broadway and Fourth Avenue, Read More
When the news that George W. Bush had been reelected began to pour in around 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 4, 2004, Justin Krebs, a 30-year-old political organizer who lives in Hell’s Kitchen, was driving up the New Jersey Turnpike after a day of last-minute canvassing for John Kerry in Philadelphia. This year, he’s even more Read More
It was an unseasonably warm evening in a courtyard behind a midtown dive bar called Rudy’s, and a casual after-work crowd of Obamaphiles was bathed in the light of a Florida State football game projected on the wall, talking politics over $9 pitchers of beer. The mood was festive, anticipatory, measured. With just a dash Read More
