Top 5 Election ’08 YouTube Videos
The 2008 election is the first to harness the power of user-generated content. The Internet is causing a renewal of interest with young voters unlike any Rock the Vote movement could provide. I thought it would be interesting to compile some of my favorite pro-candidate YouTube videos.
- “We Are The Ones” by Will.i.am
Will.i.am was the founding member of the Black Eyed Peas. This is his 2nd political music video that he posted to Youtube. His first video was “Yes We Can,” which currently has over 12 million combined views on Youtube, and has spawned many parodies, including “No You Can’t,” which attacks McCain.
- Ron Paul: A New Hope
Ron Paul may be out of the race, but this video made a big impact with the help of Digg.com. It helped to inspire one of the first and largest political Internet movements, which resulted in breaking the single-day online fundraising record on November 5, 2007.
- “Hott for Hill” by Taryn Southern
There aren’t many hit pro-Hillary videos on YouTube. This one made rounds last summer as a response/parody to the landmark “I Got a Crush on Obama” video by Obama Girl. The only other Hllary video I could find was “Hillary4U&Me,” which I refuse to link here.
- “I Believe Barack Obama” by Jonah Matranga
Yes, another Obama video. There are a lot of them, but this one comes from one of my favorite singer/songwriters of all time: Jonah Matranga. Jonah is one of the leaders in the record label-free music movement, and beat Radiohead to implementing the “pay what you can afford” concept.
- “Raining McCain” by The McCain Girls
I really don’t know.
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