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With no small amount of glee, Conservative party operatives – usually young and mostly male – have spent months assembling video footage of just about every dumb thing ever said by Stephane Dion and other Liberals.
Early this morning, they unleashed most of that video at a new, often-nasty, anti-Dion site.
The Liberals have been having fun, too, at the expense of Stephen Harper and several cabinet members. This morning, they launch their own attack site, which will go live later today. The Liberal site, Scandalpedia.ca, draws its inspiration from the online reference site Wikipedia. The Liberals promise an online compendium of Conservative scandals and failures to honour campaign promises involving the likes of Maxime Bernier, Stockwell Day and John Baird.
“The party that ran on accountability has not exactly covered itself in ethics and accountability,'' said the Liberal official.
These website launches are the newest iterations in campaigns that, so far, have been characterized by a lot of name-calling between Tories and Liberals. They're also a good example of how all parties are using the latest online services and technologies to reach past traditional methods of communications to find new pools of voters. [Read more about this…]