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Party Hacks: Rebooting the GOP
by Jonathon Stein
"It was at this exclusive locale that a party known for its rigid power structure exhibited that change had indeed come to Washington by opening the club to hundreds of outsiders, conservative Web activists who had traveled from as far as Ohio, Georgia, and Wisconsin to attend the rnc's first "Tech Summit." Somewhat inauspiciously held on Friday, February 13, the open forum was designed to help the committee's leadership bring the gop's outdated Web operations into the 21st century. Surveying the scene that morning was the rnc's silver-haired eCampaign director, Cyrus Krohn. Wide-eyed, he told me, "No idea is too small. No opportunity is too new. Innovation is king."
The event was put together by Michael Steele, the rnc's embattled chair, and Saul Anuzis, the tech-savvy former head of Michigan's Republican Party who was the favorite among the gop's new-media wing for the top RNC job; after winning the post, Steele brought Anuzis on as a cochair of his transition team. During the open-mic portion of the event, one young man suggested an iPhone app that would alert users when their representatives are about to vote on important issues. Another man recommended building online games to reel in young voters: Why not retool the Atari classic Paperboy so that the main character is President Obama throwing wads of cash at pork barrel projects? "Our goal is to take what Barack Obama and the Democrats did and put it on steroids," Anuzis told me."
I have to be honest, I do believe the boys in charge have finally figured it out! The 2010 elections will prove to be very successful if the GOP can get the same type of tech savvy voters under its thumb that helped the Dms in 2008.
Party Hacks: Rebooting the GOP
by Jonathon Stein
"It was at this exclusive locale that a party known for its rigid power structure exhibited that change had indeed come to Washington by opening the club to hundreds of outsiders, conservative Web activists who had traveled from as far as Ohio, Georgia, and Wisconsin to attend the rnc's first "Tech Summit." Somewhat inauspiciously held on Friday, February 13, the open forum was designed to help the committee's leadership bring the gop's outdated Web operations into the 21st century. Surveying the scene that morning was the rnc's silver-haired eCampaign director, Cyrus Krohn. Wide-eyed, he told me, "No idea is too small. No opportunity is too new. Innovation is king."
The event was put together by Michael Steele, the rnc's embattled chair, and Saul Anuzis, the tech-savvy former head of Michigan's Republican Party who was the favorite among the gop's new-media wing for the top RNC job; after winning the post, Steele brought Anuzis on as a cochair of his transition team. During the open-mic portion of the event, one young man suggested an iPhone app that would alert users when their representatives are about to vote on important issues. Another man recommended building online games to reel in young voters: Why not retool the Atari classic Paperboy so that the main character is President Obama throwing wads of cash at pork barrel projects? "Our goal is to take what Barack Obama and the Democrats did and put it on steroids," Anuzis told me."
I have to be honest, I do believe the boys in charge have finally figured it out! The 2010 elections will prove to be very successful if the GOP can get the same type of tech savvy voters under its thumb that helped the Dms in 2008.