Archive for the ‘politics’ Category

Obama Campaign Takes Marketer of the Year Award

Ad Age named ‘Obama 2008′ Marketer of the Year. No surprise here.

State of the Nation

Here’s the Canada that we’re waking up to this morning. Visit CBC for complete coverage.

So you’re saying Obama will cut taxes?

Great tool that explains what your tax cut will be under Obama’s proposed changes here. The typography focused ad is some sweet icing to market that cake.

Thursday is the new Saturday

Just ask the cast and crew of SNL who nail the premier Thursday Weekend Update

Barack’s Branding

One thing that’s pretty noticable in the Democratic Primary campaign is Obama’s branding. From the very recognizable ‘O’ logo to the use of the web and social media, Obama’s camp really has it nailed. Newsweek’s Stumper blog interviewed Pentagram’s Michael Bieruit, one of the world’s most respected designers, about the success of the Obama brand. [...]

Tracking Popularity

Look, you can poll all you want, but at the end of the day, it’s not easy to track how popular one thing is versus another; Be it a thing, person or event, it’s hard science. But if there was one key indicator of popularity, it might be Google Trends. It let’s you graph and [...]

Texas Two-Step

The New York Times has great graphic about how Texas State senates are allocated, where Latino voters come into play and how this affects the candidates campaigns.

Texas, Do Me Proud

I rarely never write about politics on this blog but being a former US resident I feel I have to weigh in on what’s going on in the US Presidential primaries, happening now. For those that don’t know Dallas, Texas is where I grew up, so this is something that is very close to my heart. [...]

Obama vs. Clinton

Actually, I’m just comparing their respective web sites. Sorry for the juicy, leading title. www.barackobama.com -> less is more? www.hillaryclinton.com -> video chats, guest blogs and more, oh my?! PS / My vote is for David Palmer…