I just had to laugh out loud when I saw the bingo headlines this morning, Barack Obama with his own online bingo website! OK, so it’s not quite true. Apparently a couple of guys set up www.obama-bingo.com to bring two dynamically opposite worlds together – politics and bingo. (Reminds me of one of our recent bingo polls – who would you prefer to play bingo with, Obama or Hillary Clinton? – It was very close, but Hillary beat Obama by 1%)

Here’s the online bingo poll results so you can see for yourself:
http://bingostreet.com/online-bingo-poll/which-american-presidential-candidate-would-you-like-to-play-online-bingo-with

There is a deeper meaning to Obama-Bingo that makes it a very worthy cause, winners get to donate their prize to their favourite charity. And there’s a really nice twist in this online bingo game that’ll be put to the test tonight in the US, when Obama makes his next convention speech.

The bingo cards have keywords instead of numbers, that featured in previous Obama speeches. There’ll be an electronic link from the convention to the online bingo site, and as soon as he opens his mouth and pops out a featured word it’ll be transmitted to Obama-Bingo players. First person to Bingo on a line wins the grand prize – and their lucky chosen charity gets the full benefit. Just another reason why I’m mad for online bingo!

Written by John Witherspoon for Bingo Street – the place to go for anything to do with bingo, online bingo and online bingo promotions!

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