Kansas City Playlist: Will Social Media Finally Win Voter Love?!?

Quick tech consideration tonight . . .

WILL THIS LOW TURNOUT KANSAS CITY ELECTION FINALLY PROVE SOCIAL MEDIA EFFECTIVE AT INFLUENCING VOTERS?!?!

Consider . . .

News coverage of the election is minimal . . . The reality is that METRO AUDIENCES DON'T CARE MUCH ABOUT KCMO POLITICS and council contenders no longer have the cash to pay off major publications.

And so . . .

Candidates are desperately turning to places like Instagram in order to get their message across.

In fact . . . Insta more than Twitter or Facebook has been the most surprising move in this local election cycle.

I think we're all wise to Twitter bullies faking a constituency and using bots and faraway "friends" to make it seem like bike lanes have universal love . . . And Facebook is just some place to get in a bitter feud with some guy's very angry grandpa. We only lament that local candidates haven't started dancing on TikTok like Jackson Mahomes before the Chinese app is ultimately banned.

Meanwhile . . .

From TKC's vantage . . . It's kinda hilarious to see a local candidate on the same Insta feed with a big booty model and Chicano rodeo humor.

For instance . . .

A smiling Northland candidate dutifully ruined the fun after I was giggling uncontrollably at at this clip:

And so the answer to our post title question . . .

Nah . . . It's unlikely that social media is going to make the difference in this election and so far we've only seen big money candidates dedicate a fraction of their budget to buying flashy mobile phone adverts.

Still . . .

This tech gambit that doesn't really seem to effectively drill down into the muck of local voters & neighborhood politics inspires our TKC playlist for tonight on the topic of online illusions.

80s hair band tribute to the power of the image . . .