Red State Guest Blogger: Terry McAuliffe. (No, we're not kidding.)
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RedState Editors note: DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe spent some time with us this afternoon and answered a popular question for us: Why are liberals and Democrats better at political blogging than conservatives?
Three reasons ...
We are a younger party; there are more young people in the Democratic Party. They grew up online, they are comfortable online, and the natural extension of that is to move their political activity online. The blogs are a big part of that, and will play a big role this year in electing John Kerry and John Edwards.
Young people -- young Democrats in particular -- are agitated by President Bush. I think that has gotten them really fired up. Blogs are a powerful tool they can use to voice how this Administration’s policies are hurting the country. And I think that’s part of the reason the bloggers have been so helpful to us.
We understand the importance of blogs. We had an extensive operation at the Convention: for the first time we welcomed bloggers into the hall, and let them watch all the festivities. There were over 100 bloggers each day up there overlooking the Fleet Center. We gave them access to the Convention, that’s something we’ve never done before, and something we couldn’t do in 2000. And it's just the beginning, we expect to do a lot more with them.
Thanks, you guys.
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Red State Guest Blogger: Terry McAuliffe. (No, we're not kidding.) 14 Comments (0 topical, 14 editorial, 0 hidden) Post a comment »
If Krempasky hadn't called me and assured me that this had actually happened, I would have suspected a hacker infiltration of the site.
Incredible...
Who is next? Karl Ma...oh damn, someone already took that...
Arlen Specter?
Maybe Terry should read my last post on the success of Young Republicanism.
He's a spinmeister. That's his job, of course. Though, I do think it was rather cool that you guys let him write his explanation instead of just theorizing.
Now lets rip it to shreds.
I'm not sure, actually. I enjoy them more, because I'm more in agreement with them, but I think perhaps the conservative ones (instapundit, sully, hugh hewlitt, drudge (ugh!)) might have more influence.
....fundraising, they are.
The conservative blogs may have more readers and might even be better written, but as an activist center Kos still leads the pack but quite a margin.
...for taking the time to hang out with us "little people", even though we're on different teams.
I'm glad Mr. McAuliffe took the time to blog on a blog that's not really friendly to him. Hopefully though he wasn't blogging from the convention floor/arena.
Also, I was pleasantly surprised that he was able to make 3 paragraphs and only mention Bush once.
It could have been worse:
"Why are liberal bloggers better than conservative bloggers?"
"Well liberal bloggers have plenty of material to attack in the awful, tragic administration of Bush, and all the missions he hasn't accomplished."
At least we didn't get that.
If the measurement of liberal blog success is that they raise more money, that doesn't neccesarily mean they're younger, more tech savvy, or more energized. It could just mean their readership has deeper pockets.
Well, we all have to be good at something, don't we? I believe GW will smoke Kerry like a cheap cigar!
I think the real reason that dems are "better" at blogging is that blogging takes a lot of time, and, well, most republicans have jobs, families, and other better things to do.
Next our intrepid founders will exhume Karl Marx to blog for us.