Posted on 08/23/2008 8:01:15 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
I doubt anybody will. People who don’t follow politics ESPECIALLY don’t follow politics during the conventions. Conventions are events 100% for political junkies, particularly political junkies of the same persuasion as the party holding the convention, nobody else on the planet is even slightly interested in them. This will hold especially true for the Dem convention since he’s already announced his VP, that’s the only thing that’s even slightly interesting to the non-junkie that happens during conventions, and having already happened this one will be entirely playing to the choir.
Nobody is going to be watching the dem convention and say “hey lets check out this conservative website I’ve heard about but never visited before”. Just plain never ever going to happen, not even once. Anybody watching the dem convention is part of the dem choir, and this is the GOP choir. They’re all going to be DU and KOS types, and maybe a few random insomniacs hoping to get bored to sleep, they won’t be checking FR either, to potentially interesting.
No, they’re not. For one thing if they never heard of Free Republic they’re not going to hear about during the convention. For another if they never heard of FR they aren’t politically addicted enough to watch a convention.
Actually FR has never been cutting edge technologically. Technologically FR is generally about a step and a half above usenet, which is part of what makes it fast and useful, not a lot of dopey overhead. he cutting edge in discussion board technology these days is really heavy in annoying clutter and stupid widgits. Which could be part of why I don’t like the ads showing up, that’s exactly the kind of cluttery widget that’s making the rest of the discussion boards on the internet basically useless.
I agree. And it is very easily ‘set-off’...very annoying.
Thank you.
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