"Call to Action - 'google-bombing' the election" - Chris Bowers / mydd.com

[greeneyedboy]

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/22/133240/91

What
The utilization of Google Adwords and simultaneous, widespread embedded hyperlinks in order to drive as many voters as possible toward the most damning, non-partisan article written on the Republican candidate in seventy key US Senate and House races. The campaign will run from Tuesday, October 24th until Tuesday, November 7th.

Why
According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the number one way that voters use the Internet for political action is to search for information on candidates. During the final two weeks of the election, it is reasonable to expect that as many as twenty million voters will be searching for information on candidates online. During this key time, this project will help push the most negative article written by a non-partisan media source on all key Republican candidates to the forefront of any search for that candidate. The negative article will appear both high on all Google searches for the candidates, and as an advertisement that appears whenever anyone searches for that candidate. By giving this article two prominent locations on Google searches for the candidate, and because it will come from a non-partisan source, it will increase the likelihood that the article will be seen and trusted by those searching for information on the candidate.

How
The campaign will proceed as follows:

Step One: With help form readers at Dailykos and MyDD, I will compile a list of seventy article, one for each targeted race. Every article will focus on a different Republican candidate, and will be written by as generally trusted a news source as possible. It will also present as unflattering a view on the Republican candidate as possible. All of these articles will be placed into a database that I will maintain with the help of willing volunteers. . . .

(for the rest, see http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/22/133240/91 )

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/22/133240/91

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. K & R, great strategy. I'm searching for stories about Musgrave and

O'Donnell.

MKJ

[greeneyedboy]

5. Richard Pombo is my first target. Fortunately there's plenty of dirt.

[justinaforjustice]

2. Excellent Idea!

The internet age makes it possible to create true participatory democracy! Where do we sign up for the Google Accurate Information Squad?

[greeneyedboy]

3. i think it's genius.

i mean, that's how i am finding out about some candidates for relatively obscure judicial posts in my area; totally makes sense to do what we can to use "our" media for our advantage. we don't have Fox News, but the Internet is bigger than any of their puny little networks. (one more reason to defend net neutrality... but i digress.)

[ProgressiveEconomist]

4. kick & rec #5

[greeneyedboy]

6. on to step two

Bowers is asking for help now in evaluating the articles to make sure they're worthy of posting far & wide.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/22/212217/05

[snot]

7. K & R -- nt

[sarahlee]

8. K &R

Sorry I didn't see this here before I posted about it in the General Discussion: Politics forum.

I suggested at Kos that we can all do the same - without the blog ads for the canidates not on his list.

Someone else has suggested that we should also find the most positive articles for our Dem canidates and google bomb those as well.

Additionally, everyone who uses one or more of the social networking/sharing sites like Furl and del.icio.us or digg should make sure the agreed upon articles are all linked via those sites as well.

[yurbud]

9. don't forget to do this for Arnold fucking Schwarzenegger. He's ahead

in the polls here in CA, and if he wins he's going to ream us good.

I just put up a fresh post to all my insulting artwork about him:

http://fascart.blogspot.com/2006/10/california-dump-arnold.html

[greeneyedboy]

10. amen to that.

Bowers is focusing on close races for Congress, but we can do our own google-flexing for nothing if we get enough bloggers to participate.

[sarahlee]

11. Just posted the almost final HTML code

here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2900777

[greeneyedboy]

12. put these links in your signatures on DU & other discussion boards

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/24/122153/98#commenttop

[yurbud]

13. google bomb ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER too--here's code

Check out link to this post.

If you have suggestions for improving the code, please let me know.



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