Lukas Lehmann

Yesterday, President Elect Obama's transition team announced the weekly Democratic address will be posted on YouTube. Today we saw the first of these fireside chats go live on the new video wire (video embedded below). It's clear that Obama and his team are extremely competent when it comes to the social Web, but it might be useful to examine some of the reasons behind his phenomenal success online, and look at a potential misconception. - Lukas Lehmann

Where there’s victory, there’s also opportunity… This Presidential election was profound in its results. Obama won both the Electoral College vote 364 to 163 and the popular vote 53% to 46% with roughly 120,000,000 votes cast. This election was the first in 50 years, in which there was no incumbent President or Vice President from either party competing for the Presidential nomination. Close to 65% of the American population voted in this election, its highest turnout since the election of 1908. With Obama’s wins in key “swing states” including Ohio, Florida, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, this election was nothing short of a landslide victory that fundamentally redrew America’s political dynamics. A Democrat had not won Virginia and Indiana in a generation. - Lukas Lehmann

About the Blog News against the mainstream - that’s what I try to implement on my side. Andersdenken20 deals with the subject of Israel, politics and culture, society and Web 2.0. Selected articles are available in German at the citizen journalists platform Readers Edition. Über den Blog News gegen den Mainstream - genau dies versuche ich auf meiner Seite zu verwirklichen. Andersdenken20 beschäftigt sich unter anderen mit den Themen Israel, Politik und Kultur, Gesellschaft und Web 2.0. Ausgewählte Artikel werden auf der Bürgerjournalistenplattform Readers Edition veröffentlicht. - Lukas Lehmann