Image via WikipediaThe current President of the U.S. Obama held an online session at Facebook streaming a love Questions & Answers with Mark Zuckerberg, yesterday. This Facebook session took Obama a step ahead into his next campaign further the next upcoming elections of 2012. Obama is expected to gather a very large audience in his support by means of the Internet, a very precise young audience of potential voters. Even last time, the internet and social media network was his most major tool which took him a long way in 2008, and is most likely applying the same tools as he reruns as the presidential candidate once again in 2012.
This progress resulted right after his budget speech, which was held last week, promising to impose higher taxes on the richer community, along with protecting the social programs. Many analysts observed that the Facebook sessions that was very similar to the ones in his previous campaign that Obama ran during the 2008 elections. They also went on predicting that this same strategy is relatively less likely to work this time. They claim that considering that he had a chance to spend time in the White House, and clearly let down plenty people for not keeping up to the earlier big promises he made during last campaign. Potential voters will no longer support him that easily and would obviously feel hesitant this time to believe his public speaking so easily.
It is being largely perceived that last-years Obama’s run for presiding was a one-in-a-lifetime campaign, as he successfully man handedly led the way. Almost all the younger population leaned towards him on the internet rather than giving any other candidates a chance, simply because he was the first one to really organize the campaign on the Internet. As surprising as the facts sound, back in 2008, he counted fourfold more Facebook and MySpace supporters than John McCain, and 240 times more Twitter followers.
Whereas considering its not 2008 anymore, and with 2012 yet to come, politicians are already using mostly Facebook or Twitter to interact with way larger audience than ever before. Hence it is least possible that any single candidate would be able to create such monopoly on the social media, in fact, there is a greater possibility that Obama will be running against much more Internet savvy opponents this time. And also considering the aspect of ‘learning from past mistakes,’ this times opponents will definitely apply a far better grip at online world as they have already noticed its dominance in politics. So unlike 2008, this time the same powerful youth will have way more than just Obama to choose from.
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