Surfing YouTube for candidate videos
So, I'm waiting about for folks to return phone calls this afternoon (you know who you are) and trying to be productive at the same time. So I was looking about on YouTube to see who on North Carolina's political scene has been posting videos there.
Treasurer and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Richard Moore has quite a few up, mostly posted by his campaign and clips from press conferences or news broadcasts.
So what about his chief Democratic rival, Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue? I could find only one, and it was posted by the Moore campaign. It is meant, I think, to continue firing away at the Lt. Governor on the abortion issue. Moore has accused Perdue of playing both sides, as detailed in this Under the Dome column.
Here's the video itself:
Does this sort of thing matter? It might. Certainly reporters and bloggers will be looking to YouTube among other sources for primary material to back up our stories over the next year. If a candidate doesn't have material up on a favored medium, that could hurt in intangible but very real ways.
My bet would be Perdue will start hitting the net in earnest after her Oct. 1 announcement.
Update: Perdue does have a website, although it pretty much is one big picture right at the moment, and she has a Facebook group.
Moore's website is here but I don't see a Facebook page for him.
By the way, Republican candidates for governor seem to be similarly disengaged from YouTube, although I was able to find at least one video for GOP candidate Bill Graham.
Update: Sen. Fred Smith, another GOP candidate, has himself a YouTube video too, of what looks to be a campaign commercial. (Hat tip: the Dome-meister.)