Someone needs to time how long it takes for the announcement to go from the text message to appearing as a headline on CNN.com(or some other news site).
I assume I’ll wake up and find out on the internet.
I didn’t bother; I figure it’ll be all over the Internet within ten seconds of the message going out.
While I am a volunteer for Senator Obama, and I am enthusiastically going to vote for him, however, my cell phone provider charges me money to send or recieve text messages and I’m too cheap to pay for the info. That, and It’ll be on the internet, the TV news, etc immediately after the announcement anyway, so what’s the point?
I think it’s mostly a gimmick, a sort of way that people can show that they are in the loop and get news before others do. Also so they can tell others the news first. At least, that’s why I’m doing it.
I am curious to know the timeframe for it. It’ll be interesting to see if my phone gets the message before or after it is announced on live television. I suspect it will be after, but it would be totally cool if it was before.
The problem with your argument, Diogenes, is that it is so clearly supported by both logic and the evidence that I have no effective rebuttal. Only by embracing Sherri-Shepherd levels of speciousness could I even begin to respond.
Fuck your annoying facts, Dio. Fuck them right in the ear. 
I signed up! This is kinda cool!
I think I have texted it properly, but IANA texter often, so I don’t know if it will work.
Edit- just got the response message. Now I need to figure out why I did, since I am no Obama supporter.
Why would he need to text anyone? Don’t you guys already get e-mail from his campaign several times a week anyway? I delete messages from McCain 2-3 times a week, and I certainly never signed up for anything from his campaign.
You people need lives, or girlfriends, or something…LOL. I can think of a million more interesting texts to get than that. Guess I just don’t need to feel like one of the cool kids anymore. Plus I have this feeling that 45 seconds after he makes the decision, some horrendous scandal about that person will erupt and he’ll have to change his mind anyhow.
Good move though, to get everyone sitting on the edge of their seat for days, anxious and worried, waiting by the phone for a simple word…I’ve broken up with guys for less, though.
Not really. It’s also to grow a bigger list of phone numbers so we can contact people in a faster manner that people like. Kids like this texting thing, you know.
I wonder what time of day the announcement will be made? When would the frenzy on the evening news (or the morning news) be greatest?
Morning to early afternoon - that gives the TV shows the maximum amount of time to talk about it before it becomes yesterday’s news. Since they haven’t announced it yet today, I think that means they’re waiting for tomorrow, or more likely Saturday, because why do it on a Friday?
I think this build-up is becoming silly and anti-climactic. They announced the text message thing to their supporters last week, and I think most people thought it was going to be announced relatively soon afterward. I think many people are losing patience with this “Who will it be?” bullshit.
I’m somewhat disappointed that the Obama campaign is letting itself drop deeper and deeper into this irrelevant drama. Just announce it already so we can start the full throttle campaigning. Announcing it on a Friday or Saturday will be dumb because most people have other things to do on the weekend than watch/read the news. People are going to be out and about on this late-summer weekend and not watching TV. The campaign’s already going to dominate the media next week with the convo; it would’ve been smart of them to control some of the press *this * week too with an early-to-mid-week announcement.
If they wait until saturday I’m going to be pissed. That’s just an obnoxious amount of time to milk this.
Didn’t they say yesterday that the announcement would come within 48 hours (of yesterday afternoon), though.
If they stick with the “early morning” signals, I think they’ll do it tomorrow. Even that’s dragging it out too much. This is beginning to annoy me. I think it’s a mistake to play games with supporters like this. They made the decision like monday. This attempt to select for maximum news cycle is too clever by half. I don’t even get why they think burying it over the weekend is better than getting some mileage during the week.
It’s starting to be like the Brett Favre retirement saga. Shit or get off the pot, already!
That said, I am texted in and eagerly look at my cell phone anxiously every time I get a text. Of course, I get so many news and sports alerts, this anxiousness is killing me.
I have heard that Team Obama has a plan to make sure it goes to the TXT before the press runs it.
The plan is to have the text system ready to go on a computer. Have the core team in the room (they likely know already) and make the call to the Veep choice. As Obama is inviting him, they type the message and send it.
So the Veep choice will likely not know much sooner than the rest of us.
Brilliant move, a little choppy on the execution.
Breaking news: someone has leaked spoilers of the upcoming text message by taking pictures of Senator Obama’s phone on an anonymous piece of beige carpet. If you look closely you can actually read some of the characters. J.K. Rowling’s attorneys are standing by.
This is campaigning, folks. Yes, it’s gone on much longer than necessary, but the Obama people have decided to wrap the whole thing up together for maximum attention. They got stories by saying it would be announced via text message, then by saying it’ll come soon, then by waiting, to make VP announcement+convention into one, even bigger event.
The odd thing to me is that Obama’s VP announcement has received so much more attention than McCain’s, which also has to come soon. Granted, it’s now clear Obama’s choice is coming first, but McCain cinched the nomination back in March and he’s playing games of his own - by having rallies in three states at once on the day the choice is expected, for example. But CNN feels compelled to put out a story every time one of the people on the Obama shortlist says “I still have nothing to say,” as if that’s news. On the other hand, there hasn’t been much talk about McCain beyond the pro-choice/pro-life thing.
All this for something that has very little effect, if any, on who wins.
You what is really bad? When you get jittery at a text, and it is just an e-mail from Netflix saying your son’s “Agent Cody Banks” DVD just shipped.
Know what’s worse? Five minutes later, you jump again, only to learn that “Agent Cody Banks 2” has also shipped.
Even worse than THAT? We will be watching Agent Cody Banks as family movie night this week.
I’m so sorry. (((hugs)))
As far as the purpose of this whole thing goes: the confirmation test ends “Please forward.”