One thing has become clear in this election: the traditional way of running campaigns – raising money, building a good ground game, putting headquarters and phone banks all over the place, filming ads, etc – is dead. Today is all about grabbing as many twitter and FB space with any means at your disposal. Outrageous statements that make for good memes, attention grabbing insults, hysterical outbursts on Twitter that give pundits a chance to talk about nothing else for days – this is the new winning strategy.
For 2020 Democrats need a clown.
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A killer clown…?
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Too bad Biden will be too old to run!
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Too bad for Howard Dean too.
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Can we redo the internet?
Information wants to be free! Democratize the news! lol
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump-misinfo
How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News
BuzzFeed News identified more than 100 pro-Trump websites being run from a single town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
“This is the news of the millennium!” said the story on WorldPoliticus.com. Citing unnamed FBI sources, it claimed Hillary Clinton will be indicted in 2017 for crimes related to her email scandal.
“Your Prayers Have Been Answered,” declared the headline.
For Trump supporters, that certainly seemed to be the case. They helped the baseless story generate over 140,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook.
Meanwhile, roughly 6,000 miles away in a small town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, a young man watched as money began trickling into his Google AdSense account.
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It’s good that at least this fellow in Macedonia made some money off these idiots.
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“The young Macedonians who run these sites say they don’t care about Donald Trump. They are responding to straightforward economic incentives: As Facebook regularly reveals in earnings reports, a US Facebook user is worth about four times a user outside the US. The fraction-of-a-penny-per-click of US display advertising — a declining market for American publishers — goes a long way in Veles. Several teens and young men who run these sites told BuzzFeed News that they learned the best way to generate traffic is to get their politics stories to spread on Facebook — and the best way to generate shares on Facebook is to publish sensationalist and often false content that caters to Trump supporters.”
Everything is entertainment. How can a multi-page well-sourced news story appearing in ny times compete with this?
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Exactly. A person who voted for Trump couldn’t have possibly taken the election very seriously.
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