Steve Perry at the MNMon on John McCain’s blog success story, quoting Steven Dinan of the WashTimes:
[Official McCain website blogger Patrick] Hynes said the back-and-forth with bloggers took ‘a great deal of sting out of the criticisms’ over immigration, Mr. McCain’s push for campaign-finance changes and other areas where conservatives have registered their discontent with the senator, who has secured enough delegates to win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.
“‘It gave him a microphone when others had already left the building,’ said David All, one of the Republicans’ Web pioneers who runs SlateCard.com and who said Mr. McCain has benefited from Mr. Hynes’ ties to bloggers. ‘That very much symbolizes the role of bloggers: We don’t have editors to report to, and there isn’t a big meeting with editors every morning. What that comes down to is personal relationships.'”
Perry:
McCain has gotten good mileage out of his conference calls with righty bloggers, as these posts at Captain’s Quarters, Townhall and Race42008 attest.
As opposed to the left, which spends millions subsidizing blogs like…well, MNMon, and get…
…well, Ted Lamont. And Obama Girl.
McCain voters are the ones with AOL accounts who keep forwarding messages about the Internet Tax to all their grandchildren.
The blogosphere is the Obamasphere, my friend.
angryclown said:
“The blogosphere is the Obamasphere, my friend.”
Sure the internet has a large number of hopeless, self hating, delusional la-hooo-sers (*cough* angryclown *cough*), but that statement is a bit hyperbolic.