I've long argued that the achilles heel of McCain's campaign will be their failure to understand how Google, YouTube, blogs, and social networking technologies have totally transformed our electoral process. By picking an absolute unknown, McCain has decided to put my theory to the ultimate test. Josh Marshall must be in heaven today.
More to the point, I am in heaven today. If ever there was a candidate designed to test how ideas spread from the blogosphere to the elite media, this is it. I was hoping I'd get a few good case studies out of this election for my dissertation. Never in my wildest dreams did I think McCain would hand me a gift like this.
Until a few hours ago, Palin was an unknown unknown. Over the next dew weeks, a new narrative about her will be constructed almost entirely from scratch. No doubt the McCain camp thinks they will be able to shape and control it. But they won't.
Good god - how ever did I get this lucky?
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