Mon 12 Nov 2007
You, too, can watch an electoral flameout in real time!
Or not. Who knows, maybe this guy has a shot, if he’s as creative with campaigning and working the system as he’s initially shown to be with online messaging. I wandered over to Justin.tv from a link in a Huffington Post article that indicated Congressman Ron Paul was using the site to broadcast live events, including some big Paulapalooza in Philadelphia the other day. Justin.tv has apparently grown quite a bit, from its early days of being just one random guy lifecasting from a webcam on his baseball cap, to a veritable live-streaming MySpace of 20-ish-year-old netizens who lounge around in their bedrooms on camera and chat about nothing, often enhancing such nothingness with (surprise surprise) cleavage. But as I thumbed through the channels, I came across a second example of usefulness in this den of networked narcissism: Crazy for Congress.
Jeff George is running for the House of Representatives from the 14th district of Florida (around Ft. Myers), and he’s going to lifecast his endeavor. His website needs a lot of help (whether it needs more than his campaign remains to be seen), but it could be interesting for some political junkies to watch such a low-budget campaign in action (OMG canvassing suspense!). He kicked things off six months ago with an introductory video here on YouTube before launching into the lifecasting bit about a week and a half ago.
He’s running as a (liberal-looking?) independent against incumbent Connie Mack and Democratic challenger Larry Byrnes.
