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Technology, grassroots efforts to define 2012 election

Sunday, April 24. 2011

The 2012 presidential election will be decided by grassroots efforts and successful social networking.

At least, that's what the candidates for the state Republican Party chair argued during a debate last Thursday at Braselton's Police and Municipal Building, hosted by the Jackson County Republican Party.

Shawn Hanley and Tricia Pridemore challenged current party chair Sue Everhart over her use of technology in past elections, saying the state GOP needs to do better with Twitter updates, Facebook posts and making YouTube videos.

The three are vying for the volunteer post that will hopefully lead Georgia to a greater Republican victory in the 2012 presidential election than the five-point margin won by Barack Obama in 2008.

But Republican gains in every major state seat during the last election, Everhart admitted the technology for previous elections wasn't what it could have been.

For the full story, see the April 27 issue of The Jackson Herald.

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#1 Jurasic Jack on 04/25/11 at 03:24 PM [Reply]

Wha? Is everybody getting this? The Republicans must do better with Twitter updates, Facebook posts and making YouTube videos? I never thought of that.

I’m a Republican but I don’t look at Facebook. I’m pretty sure I’m not in it. I don’t twitter or tweet or twinkle or any of that. And I don’t watch YouTube videos.

I don’t do any of that because I am fortunate enough to have a job, and that’s where my time and attention go. And I hope to keep that job even though President Obama’s primary domestic agenda is a green economy, not whether I, or you, have a job or not.

When gas hits five bucks a gallon a green economy won’t matter much. I suggest that billboards, not that electronic wizardry, show in large lettering and bold colors the insulting price of gas in America, and ask “What now, Mr. President?” Jack

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