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Political sixth sense

In 1999, M. Night Shyamalan gave us the movie “The Sixth Sense,” where Haley Joel Osment delivered the now famous line I see dead people…

In 2008, the good people at Twitter have now given us Election2008, which filters “hundreds of Twitter updates per minute to create a new source for gathering public opinion about the presidential election and a new way for you to share your thoughts.” You should check it out.

Watching the non-stop feed of 140 character-or-less musings, utterances, egads, and harrumphs. The good, bad, and the way off-color. The hysterically funny and frightening. Scrolling by side-by-side…

I can’t help but feel a bit like Haley Joel. Sometimes laughing out loud. Other times watching in disbelief and horror at this Sixth Sense-like experience of seeing what’s on the minds–at that very instant–of people across the country.

And all the while thinking: I see voters…
And that I am just like them.

Can Twitter’s Bailout2008 be far behind?

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