DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION: Steve Westly Hypes New Media at Internet and Computer Caucus Meeting

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Former Controller and gubernatorial candidate Steve Westly visited the Internet and Computer caucus today, pitching his vision of the future of campaigning. Here's a taste:

"You are the Caucus of the future. You are what is deciding elections," he told the overflow crowd. "It's the Internet caucus; it's technology. This is it. No other election has underscored it like what's happening right now."

"This presidential race, because of the dynamism of the two extraordinary candidates, we now own the Internet. The numbers are stunning. The number of people coming out to vote is extraordinary. In the last election, the number of people who voted 65 and over exceeded the number of people 30 and under five to one. In this election: dead even."

"This whole issue of social networking tools. There are now over 1.4 million people with Facebook sites for Obama and Hillary Clinton. The number of people who are watching Obama videos in one day on YouTube: 24 million people."