Barack Hussein Obama may have all the wrong political ideas, but he is campaigning using some of the most up-to-date methods of any candidate.
Each day, your blogger receives 4 subscription text messages on her Palm 755 smartphone (part cell phone/part handheld computer). Two are for weather (1 in her hometown, and another for the beach), and two are for news.
The news text messages often contain a one-line link to an advertisement. In recent days, KCC has been receiving small ads within these news messages from Barack Hussein Obama. For example (left), today's messages read:
*Easy 2 REGISTER & VOTE! Txt Obama to (five-digit number).
*Join Team Obama! Text BARAK to (five-digit number).
If you've walked in a public place lately, you have noticed people from their pre-teens to their early 40s texting (typing messages on their cell phones), as they go. Campaigns are taking advantage of this relatively new concept by either advertising in subscription text messages, described aboved, or simply by texting the users directly.
Depending on the cell phone plan, text messages can be free to about 20 cents each. Your blogger's family uses ALLTEL and paid about 8 cents each to receive texts until they became so popular. Now, we are on a plan that includes unlimited text messages, as we send and receive so many.
If campaigns have been asking for your cell phone number, this is probably the reason. They want to text you to remind you to vote early and often. It's free for them. If you don't have a plan with free text messaging, don't give out your cell phone number.
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