I follow Dean Heller on Twitter. He follows 679 people. He is followed by 497 people.
Just today he has issued five tweets to his followers. They are:
- CBO just admitted that its 250 professional economists have yet to figure out the full cost of the bill the committee is marking up today.
- This is a massive unfunded mandate that will increase billions in new taxes on working Americans.
- Approximately 114 million Americans will lose their health insurance under the Democrats’ plan.
- The proposed government run health care program is estimated at $1.5 trillion or greater.
- Government run health care will result in fewer choices and the rationing of health care.
There is a steady evolution, or perhaps revolution, going on in politics. Politicians are using Twitter and Facebook to communicate with their constituents. Using Twitter and Facebook also allows their constituents to communicate right back. There are millions of people using Twitter and Facebook.
Starting with the use of the Internet in a political campaign by Howard Dean, its use has was refined and improved by the Obama campaign. It is still evolving. Obama uses websites, Twitter, and e-mails to keep in touch with his supporters. He keeps them informed about what he thinks and what he is trying to do.
Obama is elevating use of the Internet to call his supporters into action.
Dean Heller is no dummy, he sees the way of future politics and is using it.
The way politics is conducted via the Internet will continue to improve and broaden its reach to the masses as the technology expands and as more and more people discover the value of communicating using the Internet.
Those politicians and political organizations that continue using the status quo techniques will soon fade out of sight, for failing to use such social sites as Facebook and Twitter.
Let me give a for instance. The Nye County Democratic Central Committee is in need of a way to communicate with the 9,332 registered Democrats in Nye County, who are spread over hundreds of square miles. Their current means of doing so are (1) newspaper ads, (2) telephone calls, or (3) snail mail. Each of those means are either expensive or time consuming and labor intensive.
Moreover, it takes volunteers to to accomplish communication by phone calls and snail mail. Volunteers are in short supply.
Yet, to be a viable political organization the Central Committee must find a way to interactively communicate with those registered Democrats, else their organization will degenerate into an impotent entity. The emerging younger generation operates in a cyber world uninhabited by older Democrats. It is that younger generation that is the future of the Nye County Democrats. The Central Committee must find a way to bridge the gap between the older status quo Dems to the younger progressive Dems, else fail to be an effective political force.
It is with interest I watch to see whether the Nye Democratic Central Committee can meet the challenge.
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