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August 30, 2012 05:06 am GMT

How Obama Won the Internet in an Hour



Mashable OP-ED: This post reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of Mashable as a publication.

In the cold calculus of presidential politics, here's how things are supposed to work. You spend hours of travel time going from campaign rally to campaign rally, where if you're lucky and your staff has found a big enough venue, a few thousand people will watch you give the same old stump speech. You hope it'll get picked up in the news, even though the last thing you'll be doing is breaking news (unless it's for an unplanned gaffe).

If you answer questions, it's in a controlled Town Hall format, not a cacophonous free-for-all. You trumpet your appearances in advance for maximum exposure. And you certainly don't try for anything major during your opponents' convention.

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