Own Your State
By Erick Posted in Blogosphere — Comments (6) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
I know you may find it hard to believe, but some RedState readers still have not warmed up to John McCain. This post is not about John McCain, this post is about those readers (you know who you are and I will resist calling you out on the front page).
You know, a good number of the fine folks who have not warmed up to McCain have decided to take their football and go home. They should not. That is one race out of thousands across the country this year.
With RedState 3.0, you have the opportunity to own your state. Best example so far: Look at RedState: Colorado. NightTwister *owns* Colorado at RedState. No one else is covering politics in Colorado like NightTwister. The Colorado front page might as well be NightTwister's diary.
What about your state? Heck, what about your city?
Friends, 2008 is not the most important election; 2010 is the most important election. That election will decide the fate of state legislatures that will draw lines to control Congress for the next decade. We start having an impact on 2010 today.
I don't expect those of you who don't much care for the GOP Presidential nominee to write in praise of him. I'd hope you do no harm while the rest of us fight the good fight. What you can and should be doing is simple:
1. Write about politics in your state. Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? Start building that narrative. What are the issues and policies at stake?
2. Write about the ballot initiatives in your state if your state has them.
3. Write about local politics in your state. Is your mayor an idiot? Write about it.
4. **Most importantly:** pick a Republican in Congress or running for Congress you want to help. Cover that race. Beat up the Democrat. Build the narrative in the race and set the tone.
At RedState 3.0, you can tag your posts to a particular state and start building up the state sites. But even more importantly, you can start building a narrative about a candidate at the state or local level that Google will index and people will pay attention to.
You have no excuse to sit on the sideline. Politics ain't beanbag and it sure as hell matters a lot whether you like it or not. So pick your state, pick your candidate, and get blogging.
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I have the good fortune of being represented in the Senate by John Cornyn, the House by Joe Barton, and the Texas House by Bill Zedler. Each of these are of the 'so conservative that the moderates don't like em' crowd.
But meanwhile I live in a state with a great deal of squishery representing us in both Texas and DC -- some calling themselves Democrats, some calling themselves Republicans.
Plenty to do.
Unfair. Unbalanced. Unmedicated. -- IMAO
Colorado is possibly THE battleground in the Presidential election, as well as having very important battles in the U.S. House & Senate races.
Bob Schaffer vs. Mark Udall is a very tight race, and the left is pouring a lot of money into Udall’s campaign to try to get both CO Senate seats in Democrat hands.
Musgrave (CO-4) has a huge fight on her hands. She’s a multi-term incumbent barely polling at 45%, and before the race really begins.
CO-6 has a very important Republican primary race.
Thanks Erick for the opportunity to highlight State issues. I’ll be encouraging my fellow Colorado bloggers to join CO-RedState with me to get more visibility for issues important to us. Any chance you've changed your mind about deleting everything when you go live with 3.0?
I also encourage others to start highlighting their State issues.
But I'll see if I can get a heads up and pull out your stuff then put it back in myself, if I have to.
Likewise, remember we'll have an RSS feed just for Colorado, and I bet I can set you up so that RedState Colorado has its own email subscription just like the main site.
Oh, one more thing, be sure to put some portion of your posts below the fold. Otherwise they really take up a lot of room on the front.
There are two sections when you write a blog for content, and I only put one or two paragraphs in the upper box. Do I still need the "break" line in my blog to make sure it separates?
I don't mind putting my own stuff back in, but I don't want to encourage others to post before we go live if it's just going to be deleted. Thanks for looking after it. The State blog feature is by far my favorite on RS 3.0!
for others.
And kudos Erick for this functionality. I hope it gets used by many people.
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Wow I missed this completely on 3.0, I should start putting more info that I find about NJ on there.
I pointed out in another post about how even if you hate McCain, just think about getting people out to vote for him. Many people are inclined to vote a party, not just a person. So sure McCain may not win your state, you may not want him to, but if enough people can come out and vote him and change 1,2,30 Dem seats to Repub seats, then we've made a big change for the better.
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