The Hillary factor

Barack Obama was meant to be the best at using the internet but not everything is going to plan.   The leaking of his choice of VP pick meant that the people who gave his campaign their txt and email contacts in order to be "the first to know" were not the first to know after all. After the Biden pick leaked the Obama campaign rushed out a txt msg in the early hours of yesterday morning. It gives new meaning to the 3am call.  The other negative on the internet front for Team Obama is that more people are now watching McCain YouTube videos than are watching Obama videos.  McCain has a 5.3 million to 3.9 million lead.

One of the reasons is the McCain campaign's rapid deployment of attack ads.  A new one is playing across the networks here in the USA; it teases Barack Obama for not picking Hillary Clinton as his running mate:

Probably THE main challenge for Barack Obama is to get Hillary Clinton's former supporters to vote for him.  If all Democrat-leaners vote in this election there is no way that McCain can win.  McCain has done a good job at getting most Republicans to say they'll vote for him but Clinton supporters are still resentful at Obama's defeat of their candidate.  The Clintons themselves are rumoured to be disappointed that Obama has done too little to help her pay off her campaign debts.  There's lots of media questioning of why the former First Lady wasn't even on Obama's VP shortlist.  The Republicans are enjoying the continuing disunity and the YouTube ad attempts to capitalise on it.

PS My favourite McCain ad is 'The One'.