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Hillary's new hire: Courting the "netroots"
CNN.com ^
| 28 JUne 2006
| Peter Hamby
Posted on 06/27/2006 6:26:40 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Since the 2004 Presidential campaigns, when Howard Dean and Wesley Clark turned the Web into a powerful fundraising tool, political candidates have increasingly turned their attention to the Internet. But raising money requires raising buzz. Several possible 2008 Democratic candidates - including Clark, Mark Warner, Tom Vilsack, and Bill Richardson - reached out to bloggers in Las Vegas earlier this month at the YearlyKos convention, named after Daily Kos, the most popular liberal blog. Warner spent over $50,000 on a party for bloggers replete with a vodka-chilling ice sculpture and Elvis impersonators.
Now some Democrats jockeying for 2008 position are putting popular bloggers on their payrolls to bolster "e-cred." The latest is Hillary Clinton, who hired Peter Daou, author of Salon's popular "Daou Report" and former blog outreach coordinator for the John Kerry campaign.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2006; 2008; electionpresident; hitlery; hrc; internet; mrsbj; witchofwashington
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50 Grand for a leftie bloggers' booze-up? Surely, the GOP will go one better for us...?
To: Aussie Dasher
Hillary's starting to look like Paul McCartney.
;-)
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posted on
06/27/2006 6:28:28 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
To: beyond the sea
Hillary's starting to look like Paul McCartney. Has McCartney gotten ugly and bloodthirsty?
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posted on
06/27/2006 6:30:45 PM PDT
by
TheGeezer
(I.will.never.vote.for.John.McCain.)
To: TheGeezer
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posted on
06/27/2006 6:31:57 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
To: beyond the sea
Hillary's starting to look like Paul McCartney.
They Both Married a Hooker.......
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posted on
06/27/2006 6:33:37 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
( DO NOT VOTE FOR PEDRO !!! He's a DEMOCRAT......)
To: Aussie Dasher
Several possible 2008 Democratic candidates - including Clark, Mark Warner, Tom Vilsack, and Bill Richardson... But Hillary Clinton is the '08 Dem candidate. Evidently, these poor saps didn't get the fax.
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posted on
06/27/2006 6:37:21 PM PDT
by
Starve The Beast
(I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused)
To: beyond the sea
"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64..." ~ Hillary's words to Bill in a few years from now.
To: Aussie Dasher
Hillary hired a Salon contributor...
From the article(?):
"... This shows she is hip to the the latest on the "web" (that's what we insiders call the internet)..."
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posted on
06/27/2006 6:43:03 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
To: MurryMom
How much will the RATS spend just to lose again? A million? A gazillion? Us little people need an answer...
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posted on
06/27/2006 6:45:33 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(They can't privatize Social Security but they can find a way to give it to illegal aliens...)
To: Aussie Dasher
Since Hillary does not come across as a warm human being, she might be smart to stick with using the internet to increase her base.
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posted on
06/27/2006 6:47:13 PM PDT
by
syriacus
(Superfunds aren't needed, since ONE WORD from Dems neutralizes lethal chemicals -- "RUST")
To: Aussie Dasher
If she wants the nomination, she'd be better off courting the nutjobs.
To: potlatch; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; Czar; dixiechick2000; Alamo-Girl; doug from upland; Mia T; ...
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posted on
06/27/2006 7:07:52 PM PDT
by
devolve
(fx 9125_AMERICANS_KILLED_2003_BY_ILLEGALS MEX_ILLEGAL_GOT_911_TERRORISTS_ID NO_NUEVO_TEJAS)
To: devolve; potlatch; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; Czar; dixiechick2000; Alamo-Girl; doug from upland
I still think the roots of Hillary's paranoia and anger go back to her childhood when her father gave her a toaster and a radio as bath toys.
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posted on
06/27/2006 7:10:55 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
To: Blue Highway
I think Slick is keeping his distance.
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posted on
06/27/2006 7:11:16 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
(All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
To: devolve
Lovely post! The frame makes it stand out!!
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posted on
06/27/2006 7:11:35 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: potlatch
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posted on
06/27/2006 7:19:42 PM PDT
by
devolve
(fx 9125_AMERICANS_KILLED_2003_BY_ILLEGALS MEX_ILLEGAL_GOT_911_TERRORISTS_ID NO_NUEVO_TEJAS)
To: devolve
Should I laugh?? Joshing, surely!
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posted on
06/27/2006 7:21:41 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: beyond the sea
Funny, too bad it didn't work!
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posted on
06/27/2006 7:22:59 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: Aussie Dasher
'Warner spent over $50,000 on a party for bloggers '
wow, that sure was a good investment...
I wonder what the 'little people' would think if they actually knew just what their donations have bought...
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posted on
06/27/2006 7:46:11 PM PDT
by
bitt
(NY Times to New York: Drop Dead!)
To: devolve; potlatch
Will that be the seal on the new Amero bills?
Loved the link.
They must have been humming "May I have this Dance for the Rest of my Life". They deserve each other.
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posted on
06/27/2006 8:44:17 PM PDT
by
ntnychik
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