http://nicobethel.net/blogworld Nicolette Bethel's Blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:30:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/about/comment-page-1/#comment-82625 BallotVox » Blog Archive » Blogging and Vlogging the Campaign Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:51:13 +0000 http://nicobethel.net/blogworld/?page_id=186#comment-82625 [...] Nicolette Bethel, the Director of Cultural Affairs in the Bahamas, claims right up front that she’s “not addicted to the American election.” But she has a thing or two to say about it. She thinks it’s significant that a black man actually won the Democratic nomination. And that the primary was “a truly democratic one.” By democratic she means driven by citizens… online. (Found by Misa Dayson via Voices without Votes.) Forget the spin and the punditry and the experts; nobody has a real clue which way this election is going to go, because nobody has figured out how to translate the discussions that are going on in cyberspace — and that have driven Obama to his victory — into votes. The people, for the first time in what seems forever, are driving the candidates and the spinners and not the other way round. [...] [...] Nicolette Bethel, the Director of Cultural Affairs in the Bahamas, claims right up front that she’s “not addicted to the American election.” But she has a thing or two to say about it. She thinks it’s significant that a black man actually won the Democratic nomination. And that the primary was “a truly democratic one.” By democratic she means driven by citizens… online. (Found by Misa Dayson via Voices without Votes.) Forget the spin and the punditry and the experts; nobody has a real clue which way this election is going to go, because nobody has figured out how to translate the discussions that are going on in cyberspace — and that have driven Obama to his victory — into votes. The people, for the first time in what seems forever, are driving the candidates and the spinners and not the other way round. [...]

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