Patrick Hynes - Patrick Hynes is the President of Hynes Communications, a premier national social media communications agency with offices in Washington, DC and Portsmouth, NH. Hynes served as the online outreach consultant for Sen. John McCain’s 2008 campaign for president, and currently advises Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s Freedom First PAC on online communications and strategy. He also advises a range of public affairs clients on social media.
Despite the successful and headline-grabbing launch of Google+, only 13 members of the U.S. Senate and 15 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have established profiles on the new social networking site, far fewer than the number from each chamber who are active on Facebook and Twitter. (more)
The nation’s politicians and political operatives are noodling what Sen.-elect Scott Brown’s victory on Tuesday means for the political climate in their states. My guess is that the reality is there are too many variables for most states to draw a clean comparison analogy. But the Bay State’s neighbor to the north, New Hampshire, may present the most compelling analogy. And that’s bad news for the Democrats. (more)
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