This administration's use of Google's YouTube during both the campaign and after winning the election leverages Internet video to reach a generation of Americans and global citizens who no longer tune in to AM radio on a regular basis.
If history is a guide, he has a limited time to act before his post-election leverage fades.
Are we doomed to choose our leaders in settings that one expert described to me as reminiscent of the dark ages for fear of major hacks, or is it possible to see future elections leverage the full power of the newest tech without fearing cyber threats?
That's why experts believe that elections can leverage technologies such as smartcards — aka chip and pin in the U.S. — which have been tried and tested in the financial industry, a domain where the user base and threats are in many ways similar to the elections.
President Obama practically won the 2008 Presidential Election by leveraging social media (Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, was amongst his senior advisors).
Democrats captured the House in Tuesday's elections by leveraging voter frustration with Trump, especially in the nation's suburbs and among women and minority voters.
The second is that as the chances rise of an outright victory by the DPJ in the next election, so the leverage of any third political force diminishes.
Some farmers are now planning to run for election, hoping to leverage public support and pave the way for a new congressional majority that could lower taxes.
In Washington, policy analysts have cited partisan motives for delaying ratification, to prevent Mr. Obama from scoring a political victory before Congressional elections or to leverage the vote to get more money for the national laboratories that maintain the nuclear arsenal.
I know many other fellow occupiers who've been wrestling with whether or not and how to best leverage an election year.
The movement's candidates did well in last month's election, giving them increased leverage to shape a new government that they say should not be led by the incumbent prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
