Sink-Scott Battle Too Close to Call: According to Steve Litz, Amara Sohn and Brian Hamacher of NBC Miami, "The contentious battle between Democrat Alex Sink and Republican Rick Scott to become the next governor of Floria remained too close to call...
The battle must be fought in all of the sources of information that voters refer to on the General Election, the candidates and issues. In a sense they wanted to see the candidates in the raw and make their own decision, not to feel like they were...
We set out to harness the efforts of our candidates alongside our online activists by devoting our homepage to a stream of their tweets. It will clearly show what Labour figures are saying about the debate -- featuring Labour MPs and candidates and...
Richard Allan, Facebook's Director of Public Policy, said: "The leaders' debates provided voters with an unrivalled opportunity to scrutinize the three candidates for prime minister, and the rise of social media and the internet has made it easier...
A fair amount of my time has been taken up helping candidates with their local online campaigning -- local e-mails, use of Facebook to engage with residents in particular constituencies, application of Twitter as a local news service and so on.
And the CNN/YouTube debates were held on July 23, 2007, for Democratic candidates and on November 28, 2007, for Republican candidates. And I predicted that UK Election 2010 "will be fought on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and blogs.
So, "no sooner had the candidates ceased speaking than kibitzers in a TV studio concluded that the indisputable winner was the heretofore little-known leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg," wrote The Boston Globe.
In a sense they wanted to see the candidates in the raw and make their own decision, not to feel like they were being fed media. According to BBC News, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has confirmed that UK Election 2010 will be held on May 6, 2010.
He said, however, that there is much more potential for candidates and political parties in the U.K.to raise more funds via digital and social media. And many observers are already calling this Britain's first "social media election".
