Obama to Host FACEBOOK TOWNHALL

[William M. Finley]

Obama To Host Facebook Townhall On Budget

• Posted by Asst Natl Dir Mellie B on April 5, 2011 at 5:17pm in Events, Flip This House 2010, Town Halls, Etc
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First Posted: 04/ 5/11 03:52 PM ET Updated: 04/ 5/11 04:37 PM ET

 

WASHINGTON -- In yet another nod to the influence of social media, President Obama announced Tuesday that he will host a townhall meeting via Facebook on April 20. The nation's budget outlook will be the primary focus of the meeting.

The announcement, made on the Facebook page of the White House, provides another strong indication of how widely used the medium has become in national politics.

 

While this is an official White House event, it may offer some clues to how Obama's 2012 campaign might be organized. The townhall announcement was made just one day after the president announced his reelection bid. His new media team clearly finds the Facebook forum a comfortable one to traverse. But the extent to which they can rely on social media sites over more traditional campaign outreach tools is not an insignificant question.

On Monday, Politico’s Byron Tau wrote an article describing the “brave new Web world,” confronting Obama -- a world in which email and blogs “have been declared passé.

 

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President Obama's Facebook Townhall - April 20 - 1:45 PST / 4:45 EST