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JONATHAN CAPEHART: Today, we're here at the museum.
And our guests will include some of the biggest innovators
and game changers on the web and in politics.
MALE SPEAKER: Your campaign was known as the
tech-savviest, the hippest campaign.
DAVID AXELROD: Technology played a
huge part in our campaign.
I'm not sure that a Barack Obama could have been elected
President of the United States, but for the fact that
we were able to build a relationship with people all
over the country through the internet.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: Facebook, Twitter, how do you see that
affecting the midterms?
NATE SILVER: Some of them are very good.
Some of them are less good, but still give you a sense for
the zeitgeist.
AMY WALTER: You really are looking to those people you
trust the most, which usually are your
friends or your family.
STEPHEN HAYES: Having this kind of information technology
at your fingertips is changing the way that we operate on a
minute by minute basis.
BECKI DONATELLI: Everything changes so fast online.
What we're doing a year from now, we're not even thinking
about doing today.
GINNY HUNT: I think what we're seeing in 2010 is how
technology's really come into the mainstream.
AMY WALTER: It's become an essential part of campaigning
now, no longer like a novelty, but something that you have to
do and you have to do well.
ANA MARIE ***: What new media did was it allowed people to
sit around the edges of that
conversation and throw spitballs.
And eventually, if you throw enough stuff at that
conversation, the people involved in that conversation
are going to have to turn around and engage with you.
ED GILLESPIE: It's hard to see with just a little over a
month to go how the dynamic can really change.
The impact of the new media and the internet, the cycles
have accelerated.
These wave elections used to be every 40 years, and then
every 20 years, and every 10 years, and now they're like
every four years.
RAMYA RAGHAVAN: It was amazing because an average citizen
through a moderator on YouTube were able to submit their
questions for them and get their voices heard.
BEN GINSBERG: It really is a new frontier.
And what you heard today was a discussion of a lot of the
applications that campaigns are beginning to use.
JONATHAN CAPEHART: From the use of Facebook, to YouTube,
to Twitter, to anything where people can get on a computer
and access information, it's not the wave of the future.
It's the wave of now.