The Dems Push Back with Social Media
To mark President Obama’s first 100 days as President he visited a small town in Missouri. This just happens to also be where the Dems are making a second push with social media to win over the minds of the people. Organize for America. Sounds great, right? No, this is just another Democrat grass roots movement that is being employed because of recent opposition.
USA Today put out on article today stating that Organize for America is using social media as a way to expand Obama support nationwide through grass roots efforts.
So far they have held 11 community meetings and Patricia Justice, Ph.D student from St. Louis says “I have not seen something of this magnitude.” The article’s author calls the movement a “first-of-its-kind effort.”
Seriously?! First of it’s kind? You’ve seen nothing like it? All because of 11 meetings and 600,000 supporters (they didn’t report how many of them were actual tax payers 
. There largest meeting thus far had an entire 200 people attend. Impressive. Especially compared to the 20,000 tea party protesters in St. Louis back on April 15th.
In all seriousness though, this movement is supposed to be grassroots. There is no link to a Facebook page. There is no link to a Twitter handle. There is no link to a website. There is nothing that shows a serious 21st century grassroots movement of any kind or the development of an online presence.
Grassroots movements in the 21st century encompass a powerhouse combination of social media and IRL (in real life) interaction. It’s about creating a two-way conversation that can be held online or face to face. The Tax Day tea parties are a perfect example even though the drive-by media is still somewhat unwilling to recognize its impact . First, we know we made an impact otherwise the left wouldn’t be scrambling like they are. Second, we haphazardly created this two-way conversation. There were websites, Twitter pages, Facebook groups, and more, that were entirely devoted to this single event. This naturally was picked up on the donkey blogs and drive-by media. Through this we were able to reach out to even more support. That is a grassroots movement at its best. It may have started out as some haphazard movement online but it’s becoming increasingly popular for conservatives to participate online. Now, it’s a strategy and one that will work.
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