Watch This: GOOD Magazine Breaks Down Fundraising for the First Billion Dollar Race for the White House

Fundraising flunkies and compliance junkies:

Check out this great motion piece breaking down the who’s got the bucks and where the cash comes from in the first $1,000,000,000 campaign.

Brought to you by the great folks at GOOD Magazine.

Talking Shop: My Appearance on Wilshire & Washington’s BlogTalkRadio Show

Shameless self-promotion alert!!!

Tonight I bellied up to the pundit bar and appeared as a guest on the BlogTalkRadio edition of the excellent blog Wilshire & Washington.

Maegan Carberry, who I met on the Obama campaign invited suckered me into a rough Q&A by herself and Variety Editor-At-Large Ted Johnson.

I don’t know who keeps telling people that I know what I’m talking about (It’s me.), but I can’t say I dislike the attention.

For a refresher course on my past punditry, take a look at the clips below from my appearances on KNBC Los Angeles’ NewsConference…




Back With A Vengeance

I took a little while away to go work day-to-day on the Obama campaign in California.

Now I’m back.

The video above is the last piece I released, capturing the excitement from Barack’s supporters outside his debate with Senator Clinton at the Kodak theater on January 31st.

A Stirring Coda - Will.I.am’s Yes We Can video

Though the contest will continue on all the way to Denver, we are just days from 22 states casting their votes and going to caucus.

This contest has been elevated by great candidates, two of whom remain.

However you vote, wherever you stand, watch the video above.

Take a moment to think between now and Tuesday - or whenever your state votes - to think on the direction you wish for this country and this world.

Then please go vote.

The hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in America’s story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea - Yes. We. Can.

Kumar Goes to Caucus…without Harold. Kal Penn and

It was a little chilly, but I drove around with the top down in L.A. this morning. Looking at this video, it doesn’t appear that actors Kal Penn, Olivia Wilde and Megalyn Echikunwoke miss the California weather as they campaign for Barack Obama in Iowa.

Kid and Play were NOT in attendance, but Barack was on the phone.

Ah. The house party. Staple of organizing.

What once was a time for community to draw together in discussion, is now a chance for neighbors to sit and listen to a conference call together.

Because nothing forges neighborly bonds like deciding who gets to say their name before pressing pound.

Press one if you are fired up. Press two if you’re ready to go.

Obama and Edwards - Winning Them Over

A pair of videos this morning show Barack Obama and John Edwards drawing support from two unexpected sources.

Edwards continues the story of the two phonebanking stories he posted yesterday:

Can you believe it? A Republican supporting Edwards. How’s that for electability in the General?

Obama’s supporter comes from perhaps an even more surprising place, and potentially a more helpful one in the Democratic primaries:

Yup. She was a Clinton supporter. Now she’s with Barack. So, aside from losing their New Hampshire Chairman (who was also a National Co-Chair), who engaged in some pretty nasty dirty tricks; now Hillary’s campaign is losing boots on the ground, as well.

***UPDATE***

The Obama video above, featuring the Clinton precinct captain has been picked up by Drudge. Watch its traffic…

Presidential Debates and the Special Olympics…

…What are places where everyone is the winner, Alex?

Wait! Before you think Edwards ran away with the debate, here’s a clip saying how great Obama was:

And since everyone was the winner yesterday, here’s a clip that the Clinton campaign has put out:

So, in three clips from three campaigns - all culled from the same news segment - we have three winners. Rashomon, anyone?

BONUS!!! Here’s a clip from Fox News where Edwards is the winner!

Since he has clips from two networks, does that make Edwards the real winner here?

Obama “Green Gathering” Trailer

I’ve been going through old videos, looking at the campaigns’ work with an eye toward a year-end wrap up. One that I just watched that I had missed before was this piece from the Obama camp.

This video (like their Iowa J-J invitation piece, and others) shows the great creativity that every campaign draws. Even (perhaps especially) the Gravel operation has created interesting, different and creative work.

Campaigns without resources can make up for it in creativity online.

The lower resource barriers of web video production make adventurous pieces like these a lot less risky. A “why not try it” spirit not only makes for interesting videos (though they won’t all be winners!), but also fits well with candidates who a selling “freshness.” Heck, they can even help candidates selling “experience” not seem so stale…

So why not more of them?

InfoMania on Presidential Vids

InfoMania - a series of “pods” on Current_ - takes a look at campaign videos in this segment that I saw on thre tube a day or two ago.

As the year - and primary season - head down the stretch, I expect a lot of these video roundups.

I may even have to make one of my own.

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