"Politics Leads the Way We Blog"

"Blogs, Videos, and the Political Season"

Politics has led the new media revolution. And this year is promising already to be cutting edge.

Hillary Clinton does not typically show good numbers across all demographics when making public appearances. She has brilliantly counteracted that by having personal "visits" with her viewers of her website, thusly controlling her appearance. She has a new video about every week for you to watch.

Ironically, it has been the Conservative side of American Politics that has typically dominated new media, with Cable and now the Internet. Many believe John Kerry's demise in 2004 was because of a very strong right wing net base that attacked him on every front, mostly from the web.

Politicians have lived and died by the net so far in this short century. Heck, even journalists have lost their tenure because of "corrections" by bloggers.

And as the right has typically dominated the new channels, it seems to be the left whom have been cutting edge. You will recall that Howard Dean was able to get huge grassroots support thru his blogging efforts in 2004.

Now Hillary is Vblogging. And Obama is attacking back not on TV or Cable. But on You Tube!

Themed from the "1984" Apple Computer Mac Launch promised a new revolution, the Hillary Video implies a new age of politics. This video is going right after that base that Howard Dean took in '04.However, the Obama campaign is claiming that they did not release the video.

In webalogy, that means this thing has got some viral juice in it.

Meanwhile, the Edwards campaign made a blunder by hiring two pro bloggers that have written very disparaging remarks on their personal blogs that would offend a religious group that Edwards sorely needs.

I write this non real estate post because it is about blogging. And the political scene typically leaves many blunders (like hiring outside writers), and cutting edge guerilla tactics to grab mind share.

The campaigns leave behind a series of "tests" that we can all study for their clues to success or failure on the web.