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Patrick Ruffini has excellent advice this morning for campaigns: go multi-channel.  His point is that when you do "new media" you better make sure you do ALL new media. I believe there's one more element we need to throw into the mix: timing.

More on this soon.  

Frank Schubert has been involved in over 30 ballot initiatives in his lifetime but he’s never experienced anything like Proposition 8. Yesterday, I was asked to be part of a blogger conference call with Schubert who heads up the Yes on 8 movement.

Bottom line: This race is almost over. Tensions are high. Expectations are tempered but the general feeling is that Proposition 8 will prevail.

Read the whole inteview here.

Today, the Internet world is very excited about Cuil, the alternative to Google founded by Anna Patterson, the elusive gal behind Google's success in many ways.  Patterson jumped ship to start Cuil.com, claiming groundbreaking changes in the way you can search the Internet. 

Couple of pointers:

1) Don't misttype Cuil.com

2) Don't bother searching for John McCain

3) Obama seems to be their candidate of choice

As of 1:00PM EST, no results for poor John McCain.  Boy, that was the quickest flat run to the left I've ever seen for a Silicon Valley start-up.  Congrats!

Am I being too critical?  How about Mitt Romney?  Nope.  Mike Huckabee?  Nope.  On the other hand it might be a technical glitch: Hillary is missing. Then again, they may REALLY be in the tank for Obama!

So what is the problem?  Cuil suggest:

• a typo. Please check your spelling.
• your search includes a term that is very rare. Try to find a more common substitute.
• too many search terms. Please try fewer terms

I guess I should just stick with "Obama" as the "common substitute" for all my searching needs

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