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"One of the worst problems I've found with the current state of American Presidential campaigning this season is the glut of pre-packaged propaganda.  It's either B. Hussein Obama's pre-screened tech-centric interviews, John \"Pretty Boy\" Edwards' 300 social media presences (with no actual personal updates from the candidate himself), or a CNN-YouTube debate where the glut of questions are so great that the moderators and participants of the debate can still cherry-pick the topics to where it is little more than a glorified joint press conference.\nAny way you slice it, only in a few rare cases has social media allowed us a good glimpse of what is actually happening on the campaign trail, and what is actually being said by the candidates.\nThanks to the Democrats, though, that's about to change.  Part of the primary process involves a lot of what are called \"stump speeches.\"  Essentially, the candidate will go from town to town, state to state, and recite more or less the same speeches, and usually end the speeches with an open question and answers session.  As such, the press coverage tends to be light, since the cable news followers don't really need to hear the same speech from all 18 candidates every single day.  What the public ends up missing, though, is how the message each candidate presents evolves over the course of the campaign, and the generally unique questions and interactions that occur at the end of the speech segments.\nThat's about to change.  True political junkies and citizens genuinely interested in the political process can now follow all the Republican candidates as they go from stump speech to stump speech.  Utilizing Blip.TV media serving, Democrat operatives will now be attending as many Republican stump speeches, filming them and uploading them to the DNC's new FlipperTV. The reasoning behind it is that they're tired of being pegged by Republicans as \"flip-floppers,\" or in other words, constantly waffling and changing positions on the issues.  They think that by having a library of Republican stump speech coverage, they'll be able to spot flip-flopping a mile off.\nThis will end up back-firing on the Democrats, in the long run. First of all, only in rare cases have the presidential Republican candidates contradicted themselves, and never three times in a matter of minutes, like Senator Clinton has, for example. Beyond the politics and behavioral studies of various political candidates, the value of providing hours of raw footage of Republican candidates has far more inherent value to Republican supporters than Democrats. Republican conservative online video producers and bloggers, for instance, now have a wealth of source material to pepper their productions with.\nMeanwhile, Democrats now have an immense time-sink, as they scour and are exposed to literally days worth of Republican propaganda.\nSo Republicans, next time you see a Democrat, thank them for the great resource.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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