Community Oppo Research
This is an interesting and innovative way to do opposition research. Level The Playing Field 2010 has started wikimeg.com to help dig up dirt on California Republican Meg Whitman. Wikimeg.com will act as a central location for users to submit their information about Whitman. Opposition research has largely been a covert operation, done behind closed doors. However, wikimeg.com opens the process to anyone with a working email address.
Communal online research may provide the left with several “nuggets” of information to attack Whitman with but it may also discredit all of the claims on the website. Creditability online is extremely difficult to achieve, especially when it comes from largely unknown sources. This is definitely a new way and innovative tool for political campaigns but I think that the negatives are going to outweigh the positives in the end.
Read more from Joe Garofoli at San Francisco Chronicle
-Chris Walling, Political Editor