How Big is My Market?

There are those that say the social media revolution is changing America in an astounding way. Facebook alone has a membership larger than all but the world's top three nations.

Social media seems like the new methodology for Generation Y, as it becomes larger than the Baby Boomer Generation. Fully 96% of Generation Y are the new social media. Who is reaching them and with what message?

Who are their idols and what do they worship? Some political scholars say Barrack Obama won the presidency on the back of social networking and the emerging media surrounding it. Others, with just as good a resume, say Sarah Palin has put the Obama effect so far behind, it will take years for democrats to catch up.

Which is right? I think it's both.

As quickly as a new trend emerges, commercial users and emerging technology jumps out and enlarges it. Once improved and enlarged, others invent tag along technology and applications that alter, widen and ultimately convert followers to participants.

Are you riding the wave, or sitting in the sand?

Will you use the inexpensive but time consuming Social Media frenzy to get your word out? Are you aware of the power of the new medium? Generation Y does not search the web for news, anymore. The news follows and searches for them, via social networking and intelligent applications.

How does this affect publishing and emerging writers? We are poised over a gulf that reaches into virtually every home in the world. The information explosion can take a well polished and targeted message into corners unheard of three years ago, at almost no cost.

Be bold. Be true and be untiring. If you are a writer, write. then get your message out.

Obama, Pelosi, Rangel, Geithner, Holder Head Judicial Watch 2009 Most Corrupt List

Judicial Watch 2009 Ten Most Corrupt Politicians.

Barrack Obama is #1 on Their List of Crooked Politicians

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Obama, Pelosi, Rangel, Geithner, Holder on Judicial Watch 2009 Most Corrupt List

Mainstream Stream Media Silent

Judicial Watch issued its Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2009″ list a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been waiting for MSM coverage of this story–as President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Tim Geithner, Eric Holder, Charles Rangel, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, John Murtha, Roland Burris, Rep. Jesse Jackson, and John Ensign are this year’s trophy winners.

Furthermore, Obama has been on Judicial Watch’s Most Corrupt list each year since 2006—in 2008, and 2007, and 2006

Why Did Scott Brown in Massachusetts???

On the rude arch that spanned the flood
In the April breeze their flag unfurled
Here the embattled farmer stood
And fired the shot heard round the world
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Did Scott brown win because of a pick-up truck?

Did Scott Brown win because of anti-Obama sentiment?

Is the Scott Brown win a referendum Obama-care?

Mr. Brown came to town in a pick-up truck and President Obama chose to attack the truck and the kind of people who drive and ride in pick-up trucks.

Mr. Brown will drive his truck to Washington.

Mr. Obama flew home with his tail between his legs.

Why DID Scott Brown Win In Massachusetts?

The question is being spun in so many directions that pundits must think the answer lies in a cotton candy maker. If you stayed up election night and surfed the plethora of experts and political forecasters, the responses ranged from a fluke, to a poorly run campaign, to divine intervention.

The truth is so obvious that it was largely ignored. Scott Brown won because, at the end of the counting, he had more votes. Though that sounds simplistic, take a step back and examine the facts.

Brown won in a state in which Democrats outnumber Republicans by 3.5 to 1, but independents account for a huge percentage of registered voters. in a state where the Democrats win by putting their names on a ballot, the unthinkable happened. The people failed to follow their script and the Democrats never considered that possibility.

Much of the democratic script involved sarcasm, arrogance and anger, coupled with attacks against everything from the Tea Party parties, to Rush Limbeau. Scott Brown's pick-up truck figured often in responses, as if the man's choice of wheels was shallow, disingenuous and unfair to the liberal challenger.

The degree of anger was no surprise but the depth of antipathy against former President Bush was a little out of place. To hear the pundits on MSNBC, one would believe that the democrat lost in Massachusetts because people are VERY mad at George Bush. That is an answer that will not resonate with voters, who don't like being boxed and packaged by liberals seeking a politically correct response, instead of the truth.

Scott Brown won for a long list of reasons, not the least of which is the poor campaign run by the Democratic nominee and the tidal wave of negative ads run by the campaign. People tuned out the negative campaign, almost before it began and that left them free to listen for a message coming from the challengers. Coakley failed to provide more than a dusting of commentary, sprinkled with liberal talking points, choosing to pretend Scott Brown and anyone voting with him were slightly stupid and sadly gullible.

Her arrogance and elitism turned off voters who waited in vain for her to speak out about issues and conditions that require hard work and a thoughtful approach. Her refusal to debate except on ridiculous terms, then failing to give strong performance in their debate, caused many to give up and start to listen to the candidate that actually spoke to people, instead of pretending to be oh so, above them all.

It is true that Massachusetts should have been a cake walk for Martha Coakley but the cook forgot to check the temperature of the oven and the cake burned.

There is a lot of unfocused anger in the liberal media today but refusing to examine the truth, opting to fix blame instead of the problem, means the party will miss the teachable moment, here.

When Barack Obama jetted into Massachusetts to save the day, he forgot that preaching to the choir would not necessarily communicate through to the congregation. His message was stilted, scripted, fake and arrogant. More Massachusetts voters polled in Scott Brown's favor after Obama's appearance, than before. The slide was noticeable - not slight and the party aggressively ignored what that meant, as they continue to ignore what it means going forward.

When President Obama insisted former President Clinton temporarily abandon the mercy mission in Haiti to fly him and his entourage to Massachusetts for a political rally, he failed to connect to real America.

Real America understands what Mr. Obama can't begin to fathom. The devastation in Haiti far outweighed the election in Massachusetts.

I have always known that kitchen table company is so much better than dining room guests. Real America happens around kitchen tables, not elegant dinners and private jets.

If you can't connect to real Americans at their kitchen table, you can't connect. The President failed to connect and did so boldly, loudly and with as much arrogance as possible. Americans in Massachusetts heard him and responded just as loudly. The difference is that Mr. Obama was not and is not listening. The beat of his own agenda, ego and elitism is making too much noise.

When Mr. Obama attacked Scott Brown for driving a pick up truck, he attacked what makes America American.

I drove a pick up for decades and loved it. I hope to drive one again. Mr. Obama and his machine can't get that and that's why Scott Brown won last night.