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Fianna Fail put up the first group of videos of Brian Cowen taking questions submitted via the Fianna Fail website (first thought: get a decent mic).
I embedded the economy one below, I am interested to know what people think.

Following in Young Fine Gael’s footsteps, the Labour party have announced a competition with a €1,000 prize for a 1 minute video extolling the virtues of the Lisbon Treaty. Unfortunately for the likes of me, while it appears to be open to raving right wingers, it is confined to those in second and third level [...]

Tomorrow night at 18 Doughty Street, I’ll be on a panel discussion with, amongst others, Simon who also blogs here at IrishElection.com and Dan O’Brien of the Economist Intelligence Unit to try and tease out some of the issues being discussed and taking stock of some of the mixed messages coming from the polls and [...]

Ah you never know who you’ll meet when you are out canvassing! Pat Rabbitte met Mr. Tayto in Limerick which was grand for both of them I’m sure. (Cheese and Onion or Salt and Vinegar?)

Its on youtube now. I watched it on TV to get the full effect. I have to say it reminded me in the first instance of a Channel 4 nostalgia show.

My own feeling on it was that it had too much of an air of “look what we have done”, “look what we did when [...]

The list of youtube videos from the election with the highest views, the largest views by a long way for Enda Kenny’s meeting with American Idol. Full list below the fold.

We had a run down of how they think and work, now its time to take a look at the canvassers superpowers;

CitizenJon follows Bertie
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To highlight their community policing proposals and the anti-social behaviour theme they have been running for a while, Labour have launched their latest youtube video. This is Bernard;

Posted across at irishelection.tv by political thicko
Effective though labour’s attack ad undoubtedly is.
I think a little more directness is worthwhile.

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This was so good over at irishelection.tv, it gave us rule number 3. Never let your young ones post your videos to you tube.
To be fair, for a bebo site, Pat Fitzgerald’s isn’t half bad. The FF green is just about handle-able. The picture of Dick Roche encroaches on the eye no matter where you [...]

Repost from Mulley.net
A.J. Cahill seems to be the one candidate so far that has a better grasp of the online turf that any other candidate, anywhere in Ireland. AJ is blogging and not afraid to pull some punches with this post about Dominic Hannigan and he is making some quite fresh and original videos and [...]

Found this for irishelection.tv, the third candidate in Meath East to make use of blogging and youtube independent candidate A.J Cahill. It goes to show that once it begins, others do indeed feel the need to follow.

A while back we got ourselves the swanky domain irishelection.tv. Inspired by the votetube and hoping to prod our politicians on to bigger and better things we are launching it this morning. It is a similar look, similar feel only with a smaller group of commentators watching our politics unfold from youtube. Another hurler on [...]