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In reply to the discussion: My brother, a lifelong republican, told me he was voting for Obama this morning..... [View all]rocktivity
(44,585 posts)68. The kerfuffle over Clint Eastwood's RNC performance
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has compelled me to return to this conversation, because I mentioned that social media would give us "you peoples" even more skin in the political game.
Barely before Clint was finished, Twitter was set ablaze by #insertchair, #invisibleobama, #clinteastwooding. Nobody sat around waiting for the MSM or the network-connected blogosohere to instruct them on how they ought to react -- they reacted with thousands of tweets, with the more skilled among them linking to quickly-constructed cartoons:
in response, the Obama camp tweeted:
This seat's taken.
Twitter says it was the most popular retweet during the RNC convention, and Obama's most popular retweet next to the one he sent out supporting same-sex marriage. Yet I'm supposed to believe the MSM'S insistence that it's still a dead heat right now.
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My brother, a lifelong republican, told me he was voting for Obama this morning..... [View all]
rppper
Aug 2012
OP
That is great news. We really need news like this. The only thing worrying is voter suppression.
southernyankeebelle
Aug 2012
#16
You know, I've only seen on Romney sticker in my area, which is majority (R)
progressivebydesign
Aug 2012
#20
pasted "keep the faith brother" reply. I'm faced with much the same frustrating ignorance
nightscanner59
Aug 2012
#55
I live in Daryl Issa's district in Southern Ca. and I have not seen one Romney poster or sticker!
xtraxritical
Aug 2012
#40
I think young people, seniors, minorities, women, and union workers are easily going to carry
xtraxritical
Aug 2012
#39
I live in a very red area. Romney was here earlier in the month and there were people
1monster
Aug 2012
#25
Great....that is good news...I long to hear my own NJ bubba brother tell me the same thing
riverbendviewgal
Aug 2012
#11
I agree with your points. It doesn't guarantee us victory, but it is a more accurate
BlueStreak
Aug 2012
#38
That must be the only one of those propaganda emails that my brother hasn't sent...yet.
Auntie Bush
Aug 2012
#56
This most certainly is good news... It will make the holiday's more peaceful...
midnight
Aug 2012
#63