ProjectVirginia

Last week in Las Vegas, an ideological showdown occurred in the political backyard of embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as the left-wing Netroots Nation Convention and conservative RightOnline Conference squared off for the third year in a row. The competing online activism conferences once again returned the media spotlight to an issue that dominated President  Read more »

Last year, the US State Department made an unusual request to a social network. It asked Twitter to delay maintenance that might have interrupted messages from Iranians protesting the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Twitter obliged by delaying its operation keeping the network open and Iranians free to tweet. Anger over the Iranian presidential elections spilled  Read more »

This year’s Show-Me State Senate battle for the U.S. Senate may be the most important race in the nation that no one is talking about.  Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) is pitted against Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan (D) to replace outgoing Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO). Earlier this month, I examined the social media efforts  Read more »

From Rep. Darrell Issa’s YouTube Channel. 0

Here is a time lapse showing the unemployment rates across the country since 2007.  This is a link to a better quality illustration: http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html 0

Via The Daily Caller Paul Wedley is running against Rocky Raczkowski, so of course he made a Rocky themed campaign video. 0

That is the caption underneath a video of Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Basil Marceaux (R) and I have to agree.  I can’t even decipher most of the things he says. 0