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April 3, 2008

Facebook Group Created to Build McCain Facebook Group

Talk about meta. Can one Facebook group be created for the sole purpose of fueling friends on another group? Republican Web strategist Patrick Ruffini set up his "John McCain Facebook Challenge" group just for that. "The point of this group is pretty simple: Get every Republican on Facebook to go to John McCain's Facebook page (facebook.com/JohnMcCain) and become a supporter."

The group even offers supporter rankings (kinda like Bush deemed top fundraisers "Rangers" after his beloved Texas baseball team):

** State / Region / School Chair: Invite as many friends as you can from your personal network.
** Co-Founder - 200 invites.
** Founder - 500 invites.

Not surprising, there's a very specific strategy suggested, involving posting the challenge group to your profile, getting added as a supporter on John McCain's page, and sharing "McCain's page with your friends (you can message 20 at a time or post to your profile) This keeps the movement growing by making it more likely to appear in your friends' newsfeeds."

I realize social networking sites have moved way beyond their original organic approach. It's all about quantity rather than quality when it comes to the size of a group or number of friends. And I recognize that organizations and candidates want to use every means possible to get their message out and drive people to their sites to volunteer or donate.

Still, it all seems so contrived. I wonder what the actual measurable value of having more friends than Hillary Clinton's Facebook group really is. Does it really drive more donations or signups or is it just another empty number?

Posted by Kate Kaye at April 3, 2008 2:36 PM

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Comments

If anyone looks at MCBush campaign from 2000 you will see he is an obvious flip flopper or suffering from alzheimers.
It's known that the Viet Cong broke MCcain mentally, and as a result, he seems suffering from serious mental deficit knowns as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
aside from PTS, one has to wonder what effect the torture had on his mind.
It's not that his temper gets the best of him, he's mentally disturbed and time after time, has made
statements that suggest he's either confused, unaware of the reality of the situation, or true lier.
If McCain's experience could not help him vote against the Iraq war, how will it help him make America safer and better by conytinuing failed Bush policy?
These are serious troubling issues for a president
No MCBush = No more War
McClueless, MCold, MC stupid, gotta love McFlipFlopper, This guy is true lier and clueless about Iraq war.
American people are not stupid, to give MCBush failed policy & US occupation of Iraq another four years to let him
figure out that Iran and Iraq did not have anything to do with 9/11, Alquida in Iraq is outcome of US occupation.
MCstupid has to listen to Irqi lawmakers that are saying US occupation is fueling insurgency and they can take care of their country.
http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSN04304912

frank  June 25, 2008 1:53 PM


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