BestofBarack.com http://www.bestofbarack.com/ en-US Copyright 2009 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:10:04 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Sabermetrics Meets Obamania
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What happens when baseball stat geeks start running tens of thousands of simulated elections? Today, Obama wins a majority of the virtual elections but it looks like it'll be a squeaker.

FiveThirtyEight.com


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At Things Younger Than McCain we learn:

"Alaska - the freaking state - is younger than John McCain. And, for that matter, so is Hawaii. McCain is older than two of the fifty states."


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More creative casting as Barack begins his Jedi training to take on the Galactic Empire of you-know-who. ]]> http://www.bestofbarack.com/2008/05/the-empire-strikes-barack.html http://www.bestofbarack.com/2008/05/the-empire-strikes-barack.html fun nontraditionalcasting parody starwars video Fri, 02 May 2008 09:03:20 -0500 Eboo Patel on The Real Jeremiah Wright "What if the only thing you knew about Thomas Jefferson was that he owned slaves?

What if, instead of the video of the I Have a Dream speech, elementary school students were taught that Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "My government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world ..."?

What if the single piece of information you possessed about Nelson Mandela was that he co-founded a terrorist organization called Umkhonto we Sizwe (abbreviated as MK), which stands for Spear of the Nation?

With apologies to William Blake, if you believe you can see the world in a grain of sand, you better make sure it is the right grain."

-- On Faith, Washington Post


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-- Visible Man, Colson Whitehead, New York Times
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A little non-traditional casting not to be confused with another blood-pumping effort with a similar name.
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A long, thoughtful analysis of the current election by Stanford Law prof. Lawrence Lessig. Well worth the 20 minutes.
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A warm, low-key, unscripted endorsement from a writer in her kitchen.]]> http://www.bestofbarack.com/2008/04/alice-walkers-video-endorsemen.html http://www.bestofbarack.com/2008/04/alice-walkers-video-endorsemen.html alicewalker endorsement serious Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:40:37 -0500 The View From Room 306 David Brooks
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"Barack Obama is running the first real transmedia campaign of the 21st century. His people not only understand how media has splintered, but how audiences have splintered, too. Cell phones, mobile devices, Websites, e-mail, social networks, iPods, laptops, billboards, print ads and campaign events are now just as important as television. The senator's design strategy has given these diverse platforms (and their different audiences) a coherence that makes them all work together. I've worked with giant, global corporations who don't do it this well."

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 - #1 Obama, 727,871 supporters
 - #5 Clinton, 140,262 supporters
 - #12 McCain, 99,462 supporters

Most viewed News & Politics this month on Youtube
 - #1 Obama, A More Perfect Union, 3,560,044 views
 - #3 Clinton, CBS Exposes Bosnia Trip, 1,676,052 views
 - #20 McCain, McCain Girls: Raining McCain, 541,410 views

Most followers on Twitter
 - #1 Obama, 19,330 followers
 - #2 Clinton, 2,409 followers
 - #? McCain, no official profile

LA Times: Web Scout: Barack Obama's viral power

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Check out GoTellMama.org's super-stylish and sage PSAs (and while you're there, hit the online store and buy a poster!).

The Dream

They Once Said

Revolt

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But niceness and ability are only part of the story. Obama has a genuinely independent mind, he's a terrific listener and he goes wherever reason takes him."

-- Cass R. Sunstein

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