Barack Obama
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I was like, my social media, our social media was MySpace and Meetup.
Now, Meetup is the one that I always tell people is the most interesting to me.
So Meetup was a social media early application.
And you could send basically text over.
So let's say there were a bunch of volunteers up in Idaho.
And Idaho is not a big blue state with a lot of delegates, so we don't have the resources to send
a whole staff, paid staff up to Idaho.
But we have a few volunteers, some people, some supporters, they send us a message saying, hey, we're Idahoans for Obama.
And we'd love to build a, we think you can win this state.
And so we go, all right.
So we'd send a bunch of information through Meetup and we'd give them the app.
And basically what the app would do is you could
Here's Obama's positions on things.
Here's dates of debates and this and that.
But the main thing it did, hence the name, was it would help these volunteers organize themselves to meet up.