Social Media in the 2012 Election. For our final Georgetown blog post, we were asked to predict what we think will be key to winning the 2012 election online. I think that winning in online in 2012 will mean incorporating new technologies into the lessons learned from the Obama campaign. Social media lessons from the Obama campaign. Innovate where necessary; do everything else incrementally better.

Google has added local business annotations to Google Street View. Right now the application is offering the top business listings for the surrounding areas, but will continue to add more on when they receive more information about each area.

Political internet marketing aided the Obama presidential election campaign immeasurably. Why did McCain not stand a running chance? I will cast an early prediction that President Obama will sweep the 2012 election, but because his campaign tactics have been studied an.