All Blog Posts from PrezVid

Joe says farewell. His last YouTube campaign video:



And here's Chris Dodd's good-bye. We at PrezVid will miss him, for he made more creative (if long) use of YouTube in his campaign. Apparently that won't win you elections yet.



Meanwhile, Mike Gravel is NOT saying good-bye (and who thought he would ever?). This is his briefest video ever, telling Olberman that reports of his political demise are exaggerated.

Joe Biden continues on his roll against Rudy, quoting the former mayor wondering who's farther ahead on nuclear weapons, Iran or Korea. Getaloada the cocked eyebrow at the end.

There's a genre of candidate video created in this election: the montage of happy, popular, friendly moments from campaign appearances, over-edited because they can be. They come from someone on the campaign who discovers iMovie on the Mac and says, "I can be a filmmaker, too." They edit together a bunch of clips and quotes and put them to music. Voila: the three-minute masterpiece. Problem is, they're usually cheesy, uninformative, and long, and often embarrassing. I don't know why they bother. Here's the latest example, from Joe Biden:

It's Joe Biden's turn in the YouTube spotlight and he's not singing. He's asking us what we're willing to do to break our dependence on "the axis of oil." It won't get the traffic that Clinton's song gimmick got her, but at least it gets more specific than the other candidate's tapioca Spotlight videos.