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techPresident – The Future of Campaign Technology: The Ground Game
Irish Parties looking at learning online and database lessons from Obama could do worse than bear this post in mind. Almost as soon as the election is over, improvements and evolution are making some parts redundant and others essential. Get your campaign an i-phone for everyone? Might be better than printing flyers, it goes to show how parties, if they take it seriously, need to keep ahead of the wave - not just follow.
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Colman at the EuroTrib give his reasoning on why Lisbon is dead. The Government's incapable handling of the budget cuts are the nail in the coffin.
Fine Gael’s Leo Varadkar offers his view on how the SBP Opinion Poll would translate in an election.
Think tank: Time for democracy to click into place
Dan Sullivan gets himself into The Sunday Times, calling for the internet to connect citizens to a more meaningful democracy. Its an argument I agree with wholeheartedly myself. Have a read and let him know what you think.
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Colm Burke MEP reckons that we need to get honest and tell people we will be holding a second Lisbon Vote in Oct 2009 with protocols desigend to secure a yes vote.
I believe that the site should indeed steer clear of general political pieces… all posts should cover the Irish election in some way.
The reason I say this is because that is the intention of the site as a whole, is it not? A general political blog for Ireland is a great idea, but this is not it. Posting ideology is not the problem, however, but using the site to put forward an ideal should not be abused to any extent.
I’m not pointing any fingers at all, and frankly I don’t think it’s too much to ask. Given the current state of play in Irish politics, everything that happens, happens for an electoral reason. It is quite frankly a lazy poster who cannot find a tangible link between the actions of an elected (or wannabe elected) official and the election of 2007.
I wouldn’t take much notice of the comments raised. They seemed somewhat querulous.
I think given the facts that the site was featured in the Irish Times and has been taken up by politicians themselves, it might be useful for posters to attempt to strike a reasonably sober tone and to stick to comment on electoral politics and issues in a relatively disinterested way. Note, relatively. Of course, personalities should be allowed to come through to an extent.
Hey people take it over to cian’s site. So that the discussion is in one place.