Another way to spend cash and influence people
And, it should be pointed out, avoid federal spending limits.
The folks at VoterVoter.com have gone live with a website that lets you upload your own ad for a candidate or a cause, or to chip in money to buy airtime to place an already existing ad. You can even target where it will air, giving you a chance to break into that Jamestown, N.D., market.
VoterVoter.com is nonpartisan and for-profit. It's a subsidiary of WideOrbit Inc., whose investors include the Hearst Corp., which means a media company has a stake in a web company that lets people buy air time through media companies. Which is vaguely reminiscent of all those X and Y physical characteristics charts from high school biology.
But we digress. VoterVoter.com takes a 15% cut of the air time purchase for placing the ads, so getting your voice heard out there in the chorus of democracy isn't cheap. But then, you knew that.
-- Scott Martelle
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Posted by Scott Martelle on March 28, 2008 in Ads , Advertising , Campaigning , Current Affairs , Democratic Politics , Endorsements , Gimmicks , Lobbying , Media , Presidential Campaign , Republican Politics , Television , Web/Tech | Permalink
Don Frederick has served as an editor helping guide coverage of every presidential election since 1984. He is a third-generation Washingtonian, so watching the political world comes naturally to him.
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000.
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Watch all those anti-liberal rich making $75000.00 plus,
rush to spend their lazy-earned dollars on this voter voter
milking outfit to save their god given priviledges.
Posted by: Girl with the bushy armpits | March 28, 2008 at 04:47 PM