Why is the McCain Campaign reaching out to Daily Kos?

Continuing with the recent exciting news from the Republican side of our little presidential campaign, Bruce Reed notes in Slate that Rudy Giuliani's official blog seems to be acting in sympathy with Hollywood writers — except that instead of the writers striking, it's the readers.

I just tried to access Hillaryis44.com and got a CPU is Overloaded message. A few minutes later, I was able to access this unattributed blog, littered with typos. I am still not sure what this site is about, after all, I learned about it 5 minutes ago (When Meet the Press featured it in its panel discussion). At first I thought it was claiming Hillary is lying about her age, and at 44 is not eligible to be president. Then I checked the about page, and while it says nothing about who is writing this new blog, it cleared up the 44 mystery. The authors thinks Hillary will make a great 44th president. Now I am off to read the site and figure out just what this is all about.

John McCain launched his official blog this morning.

Keep reading. I won't tell anyone.

Mitt Romney is having a pretty good week in the online sphere. (Good that is if you consider reaching out to "us" and connecting with "us" on our terms for the first time a good thing - which I do.)

Let's dig in...

It is Sunday, just before 5:00 PM and my comment on Tom Tancredo's blog is up. Took a two days to get up there, but it is up. The date listed on the comment is the date I submitted it, not the date it was approved.

At about 2:00 PM on April 6, 2007, I submitted a comment to a Tancredo blog post that was driving people to a Laura Ingraham poll (April 4, 2007). Here is my comment:

“These polls have no scientific value. They are self-selected samples and therefore reflect only the views of the limited number of people who take the time to respond to them.

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