Campaigns On Demand Blog

Multiple R & D candidates are floating trial (or not so trial) balloons across South Carolina.  The more obvious are folks like Vincent Sheheen (D), Henry McMaster (R), Gresham Barrett (R), Tumpy Campbell (R), Robert Ford (D), Andre Bauer (R), Joe Erwin (D), Harry Ott (D) but do any of those have the strength or reach to lead South Carolina?  Or the vision to use forward-looking technology to reach the masses?  What about Brad Hutto?  Gilda Cobb-Hunter? Jim Rex? Chip Campsen (R).  The early field is crowded but which of these offer the leadership this state needs?

This is a very simple, very straight-forward way to get your point across:  http://taxcut.barackobama.com

You can just enter your own information and see what his plan will do.  It’s hard to argue with and is very low impact on his campaigns budget (or should be).  Kind of hard to argue with…

Check out this rather interesting website/webapp that measures Obama & McCain’s brand equity web 2.0 style.

http://brandadvocacy08.com

What a great idea, take Twitter (arguably the hottest thing to be happening on the web not) and Politics and mix them up.  You really should take a look at election.twitter.com and spend some time getting a vibe for what’s going on out there.

This is a really interesting graph showing Obama vs. McCain artiles in the msm day by day.  I’m going to have to watch this every day.  everymomentnow.com

Both Obama and McCain are honoring 9.11 with some splashpage changes (look quick, they’ll be up to something new tomorrow). Touching, but is it effective?

We preach the NO SPLASH PAGE way of life here, but don’t just take our word for it.

Very interesting web 2.0 word jumble from Thomas Hawk’s blog.  He setup the top words spoken (due to word count) by each candidate during their respective convention speaches.  Check it out it’s really neat.

Very interesting research being done by Heather Dougherty from Hitwise comparing the polling numbers to the Presidential Candidate’s website traffic.  Check it out.

Did you ever have a really nice email newsletter designed for you and then get it sent to your inbox only to see it look different than you imagined it would.  Typically that is because email applications both web-based (Gmail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail) and desktop (Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail) are all very different.

That’s not good at all for those of us who build email campaigns for our clients.  There is this great group called the Email Standards Group, that was just formed about a year ago, that champions the cause for standards in email programs displaying HTML.  They recently released an ‘acid test‘ so that you can send a standards based email test message to your personal email application and see for yourself how tough this stuff is.