Blue State Digital

Blue State Digital is the media shop behind the 1984 Hillary Clinton video that has been circulating widely on YouTube. The video is an attack ad, and supports one of Blue State's current clients, Barack Obama.

According to Wikipedia, Blue State Digitial is an Internet strategy and communications firm based in Washington, DC. The company was founded in early 2004 by four members of the Howard Dean Presidential Campaign: Clay Johnson, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Joe Rospars, and Ben Self. They are involved in providing custom Internet applications and communications strategies to primarily Democratic organizations, political candidates and non-profit organizations.

Blue State Digital was a recipient of the Fast Company magazine Fast 50 award in 2006.

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Obama MySpace Discrepancy - Joe Rospars and TechPr...

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Obama MySpace Discrepancy - Joe Rospars and TechPresident And a further interesting dimension!: http://hammer2006.blogspot.com/2007/05/joe-anthonys-published-on-myspace-email.html 1. By Joe Rospars - Our MySpace Experiment Excerpt: "Unfortunately, at that point, Joe changed the password on the profile, and didn't give us the new one, like he had done in the past. This changed the previous dynamic, and we could no longer access the profile at a moment's notice if need be. We asked Joe what... Read Full Story

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The Gurus - Internet Strategists - Meet the OPOs - Online Political Operatives, Such as Mindy Finn and Stephen Smith, Want New Media to Send a New Message Excerpt: "Howard Dean's cometlike campaign in 2003 was the first to integrate the Internet into a presidential race, and Joe Rospars was there, a 22-year-old working as an "all-around Web guy" until the campaign suddenly collapsed. Four years later, it's not just the upstarts, as Dean was, who have embraced online campaigning. And Rospars... Read Full Story

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Anthony Speaks On Obama MySpace Takeover: 'They Took This Profile Without My Consent' - The manager of an unofficial Barack Obama MySpace page tells MTV News how the campaign took his URL (Article and Video) - MTV Excerpts: ""After [asking] my consent [to turn over the page], they originally threatened to delete the profile, but they did say that they needed my consent for MySpace to take the profile from me. I said in clear language ... [that] MySpace does not have my consent to take this... Read Full Story

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Howard Dean 2.0: Obama Engages Youth on the Web E...

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Howard Dean 2.0: Obama Engages Youth on the Web Excerpt: "More than a week before Barack Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois, 3,500 students--many of whom had driven for hours from out of state--packed into George Mason University's Johnson Center in Fairfax, Virginia, brimming with idealism. As the Senator took the stage to address the frenetic young crowd, he was visibly taken aback. " http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/48316/ Alex Read Full Story

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Obama campaign statement about the 1984 Hillary video

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"The Obama campaign or its employees had no knowledge and had nothing to do with the creation of the ad. We were notified this evening by a vendor of ours, Blue State Digital, that an employee of the company had been involved in the making of this ad. Blue State Digital has separated ties with this individual and we have been assured he did no work on our campaign's account." Read Full Story

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