Ah, the wonders of the internets, giving us the ability to take every little campaign gaffe and make sure everyone knows about it. The Democratic National Committee has a new project underway, FlipperTV, where operatives film pretty much every minute of the campaign and post the video on the internet for the rest of the world to dissect. They are currently posting from Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and other places the candidates happen to show up.
Said DNC research director Mike Gehrke in an email announcing the project: "Nobody has ever done anything quite like this before, but with the Internet giving ordinary Americans like you access to the tools you need to change an election with the click of a mouse, we need to make sure you have everything you need to do just that. The video is yours -- you can just let us know what you find, or you can take it, re-mix it, add music, and make your very own ad out of it. It's up to you."
It makes for some pretty fascinating viewing at points, but there's a lot of raw video to go through in the hopes of finding one "Macaca moment." Also, they've been tracking Giuliani, McCain, Romney, and Thompson, but not Huckabee. Seems they haven't been too worried about him either, but perhaps that's changing.
--Kate Sheppard
