Obama Counts on Text Messages to Drive Turnout of Youth

Posted on November 4, 2008 by apollobravo

Barack Obama’s campaign is counting on a potent new weapon for Election Day: the humble cell-phone text message. Bloomberg reports.
Texting may do for the Democratic presidential candidate what arm-twisting precinct captains did in years past: prod millions to get out and vote. The Obama campaign plans to use the millions of cell-phone numbers it has [...]

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