Political blogs catching on (AWD in the Chi Trib)

[never cry wolf]

Nice write up in the tribune about blogs, highlights Jeff Seeman, formerly AWD here at DU.

CAMPAIGN 2004

Political blogs catching on
Web fundraising, commentary rise

By Anastasia Ustinova
Washington Bureau
Published July 18, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Jeff Seemann, a 35-year-old Ohio Democrat and former disc jockey, is little-known in his community and has not received much support from his party, yet he has raised at least $25,000 online and hired a dozen staffers for his congressional campaign.

His secret? A group of political bloggers who frequent the political blog dailykos.com has endorsed Seemann, along with seven other Democratic candidates running against Republican incumbents. Their goal is to raise money and visibility for these candidates.

"My site is a Democratic hangout," said Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, a lawyer from Berkeley, Calif., who runs Daily Kos, which he says gets more than 150,000 hits a day. "There are people here who have never donated before, but now they realize that they have to take an active role in politics."

Blogs--short for Web logs, which are online journals that usually feature commentaries on daily events and provide links to other Web sites--are emerging as potentially powerful tools for building grass-roots political support.

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[Robbien]

1. Yay for Jeff. Nice to see he is getting some ink.

I'd really like to see his opponent get booted out.