A little comedy to explain American politics

Unable to address serious issues in the Op-Ed sections of local newspapers and the free press as the founders of the Constitution envisioned, it appears that political strategists around the country are choosing to post their candidates speeches on websites such as YouTube, which are more known for political videos of Obama Girl or Its Raining McCains, than for discussing the serious issues facing hard working Americans. At a time when more people need to be involved and a more pluralistic voices needs to be represented in Washington, posting videos on YouTube and posting tweets of future campaign speeches is not the answer.

Perhaps the local press and Internet bloggers can further assist these candidates by giving more press coverage to non establishment political candidates running for office and reporting on stories that the main stream media and establishment political party candidates are either too afraid or incapable of discussing. In a Connecticut senate race, the tactical decision of the Blumenthal and McMahon campaign strategists to bypass the old medium of the newspaper in favor of the Internet and YouTube will be just as successful as Obama’s campaign in 2008, when his multi-million dollar YouTube campaign department was upstaged by the popular Obama Girl. Astute political strategists in America, know that YouTube is viewed more by 18-24 year olds than the voter demographic group who are actually going to take the time and go to the polls on election day. Perhaps the McMahon and Blumenthal campaigns will learn this in 2011, just as Hillary Clinton did in 2008 when her official campaign video on YouTube was viewed 24,000 times, while a parody video of a dancing Chilean little person dressed as Hillary Clinton was viewed over 392,000 times.

Please take the time to watch this video from Viral Video Film School from Brett Erlich as he takes a look at some of the funniest viral videos of politicians and American politics.