Take for instance this clip filmed outside of a McCain/Palin rally in Strongsville, OH. As the election day approached and poll watchers painted an increasingly bleak picture for McCain/Palin supporters, the intensity of the anti-Obama rhetoric grew. On the one hand this is just an amped up version of the emails which circulated during the primaries accusing Obama of being a Muslim or suggesting he was not an American citizen; political rumors and disinformation campaigns have perhaps always been a part of the election process. But, on the other hand it seems to me that these digital technologies are amplifying the noise, and perhaps the danger. The "McCain-Palin Mob" was partly an effect of mainstream media coverage, Palin speaking at one location in Florida is broadcast to Denver supporters before she even speaks there, so that the hate and anger in her stump speech pre-fuels her supporters if you will before the day of the rally (she serves as her own warm-up act), or factor in the role of hate radio (Hannity and Rush). But the mainstream media coverage was also I would suggest enhanced by these sort of YouTube videos which demonstrated the very real effects of this hate rhetoric, and while viewers such as myself might have been appalled by such footage (indeed most of these videos were filmed and uploaded by Obama supporters attempting to document the atmosphere outside the rallies) I cannot help but think the existence of these videos also emboldened others who saw this as an affirmation of their negative views (demonstrators in Denver enhanced by the clip of demonstrators in Ohio), which perhaps was again amplified by the mainstream media which played these clips and disseminated them to an even wider audience. Welcome to Hyperdemocracy.