{"id":937,"date":"2003-12-11T10:14:39","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T15:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/937.html"},"modified":"2003-12-11T10:14:39","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T15:14:39","slug":"clark-wins-cute-but-meaningless-rock-the-vote-video-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/clark-wins-cute-but-meaningless-rock-the-vote-video-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark wins cute but meaningless Rock the Vote video primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re still over a month away from seeing a single voter casts a single vote, but already Wesley Clark has won a key primary &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockthevote.com\/rtv_cnn_video.php\">Rock the Vote candidates&#8217; video contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Rock the Vote and CNN co-hosted a candidates&#8217; forum in Boston. As part of the event, all of the candidates were invited to prepare a 30-second video that was supposed to &#8220;appeal to young people and encourage them to vote.&#8221; All the spots were aired during the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, Rock the Vote invited people to vote on which ad was the best one. Clark won in a landslide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockthevote.com\/multimedia\/candidates\/clark.artv.affl.150k.mov\">Clark<\/a> &#8212; 46.33%<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockthevote.com\/multimedia\/candidates\/dean.artv.affl.150k.mov\">Dean<\/a> &#8212; 26.48%<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockthevote.com\/multimedia\/candidates\/kucinich.artv.affl.150k.mov\">Kucinich<\/a> &#8212; 12.03%<\/p>\n<p>Objectively, Clark&#8217;s video really was better than the others&#8217;. I think the reference to Outkast really sealed the deal for him.<\/p>\n<p>Rock the Vote still has all of the videos available online. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockthevote.com\/rtv_cnn_video.php\">Take a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re still over a month away from seeing a single voter casts a single vote, but already Wesley Clark has won a key primary &#8212; the Rock the Vote candidates&#8217; video contest. Last month, Rock the Vote and CNN co-hosted a candidates&#8217; forum in Boston. As part of the event, all of the candidates were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}