First she released her accurate and scathing critique of ObamaCare on Friday. She followed this with a number of links on Saturday and Sunday which all showed the flaw in either ObamaCare or Cap and Tax. I still didn't think anything of it until her latest post which is the youtube clip of Obamas "take a pill comment."
Within 30 minutes of her posting this clip it had over 1,300 comments. There aren't too many blogs that can do that. The brilliance of her using her facebook page rather than starting a website from scratch is she already has a built in following which is currently at 716,000 (an addition of about 26,000 since Friday alone). Reading through the comments of the clip she posted I saw that most of the people had never seen this clip. There was real shock at Obamas answer. Now most people who follow the blogs on the right have seen this clip over the past few weeks. This tells me she is reaching a number of people who don't follow the blogs. And because Palin is using her facebook account, they don't have to. Most people check there facebook atleast once a day to see if they have messages or any updates from their friends. Now when you check in, one of those updates on that page is from Palin. This means she already gets a huge number of views without even trying, before it undoubtedly gets picked up by other political blogs.
So basically in only 3 days she has turned her facebook page into one of the most influential political sites reaching people who otherwise wouldn't get this information.
As I post this there are currently 2800 comments on her post with the clip of Obama.
2 hours ago
She has been using that Facebook page to perfection lately. I was so pleasantly surprised when she posted the Obama "Take a Pill" clip. As you so well pointed out, it's a great political strategy and a perfect way to reach a lot of people at once. I hope she keeps it up.
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