Monday 10 November 2008

"The YouTube Election"?

I don't believe that for one moment.

If it were true, then no one at all would have voted for John McCain. In the event, nearly half the electorate did so.

And if these things really were decided on YouTube, Facebook or, yes, blogs, then the re-affirmations of traditional marriage in California, Florida and Arizona would have been defeated, as would the repeal in Colorado of legal discrimination against working-class white men.

I am self-evidently not against the new media. But let's keep a sense of perspective, and with it a sense of proportion.

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