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« Bredesen Boomlet Begets Buttons | Main | Corked Bat » February 23, 2005TN 2006 Senate Race: Who Will Blog First?Increasingly, political candidates are starting blogs. Patrick Ruffini - who ran the Bush campaign's blog efforts - notes a few of them here. Shameless self-promotion: I am currently offering my services as a blog consultant and/or blog editor/manager to any conservative candidate running in Tennessee for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated next year by Sen. Bill Frist - none of which currently has a blog. First come, first served. Three bonafide conservatives and one moderate Big Government-type Republican are running for the GOP nomination. Unless conservative voters coalesce behind one of the three conservatives, the ideologically malleable moderate with a record of coziness with Democrats and with politicans pushing big tax increases will win the nomination. A well-executed blog strategy may be crucial to unifying conservative voters behind one candidate. Memo to Ed Bryant, Beth Harwell and Van Hilleary: The big Tennessee newspapers will be against you from now until election day. In the primaries, they will back Bob Corker, both on their editorial pages and more subtly in their news coverage. In the general election they will back the Democratic nominee the same way - vigorously no matter who it is and intensely if it is Harold Ford Jr. Blogs are the the cheapest way to counter the intense and unrelenting media bias you will face, to break the Big Media info-monopoly, and to route around the Big Media filter to get your message out intact. And blogs are an incredibly cheap way to raise money, build a connected network of grassroots support, and respond to opponents' attacks. Blogs gave John Thune a crucial edge in his defeat of Tom Daschle last year. What are you waiting for? Posted in 2006 TN Senate Race
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Add rude campaign staff to the strikes against Bob Corker....I called, introduced myself, and asked about Corker's "the laast thing we need in the Senaate is anahther lawhlyer" cut at the other Republican candidates at the Williamson County President's Day dinner, and I was bombarded with inquiries of "who are you? where do you go to school? who are you working for..Bryant?" etc etc....I again introduced myself, my school, and said I'm working for nobody but thanks for definitively eliminating one campaign employment prospect for me! Posted by: Evan at February 23, 2005 01:42 PMGood luck to you, and I hope to see your good blogging skills being put to use more directly in the electoral process. I may disagree with your ideology and personally hope that your potential boss loses his senatorial election bid wildly, but that doesn't diminish my respect for your practice. Posted by: joe at February 23, 2005 02:13 PMI volunteered also (http://www.rexblog.com/2005/02/19#a5899) after reading Patrick's post. Although I'd help any of our elected officials blog (conservative or not) -- as I'd rather them blog than not. I disagree with the policies and stances of several of those who directly represent the Nashville citizenry, but I feel we're fortunate to have a literate, articulate group who don't have to hide behind press releases and prepared statements -- but too often do. I think if they blogged and responded to comments, they'd all come off better than they do now via traditional media. Posted by: Rex Hammock at February 23, 2005 03:31 PMI hope you guys aren't happy until you've gotten this thing to work, and keep pushing until it does. Until then, I'm only going to watch in amazement at how fast things are developing here in Nashville and around the country. Carry on with your little revolution. It's interesting to watch happen in real time. Posted by: Mark at February 23, 2005 11:31 PMPost a comment
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