{"id":88,"date":"2006-08-14T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T18:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=88"},"modified":"2006-08-14T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T18:24:06","slug":"local-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/08\/14\/local-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Local blogging?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Blogging is overrated. When the “YearlyKos” meeting took place in Las Vegas, my snarky thought was “Yeah, I’d like to attend. But the schedule conflicts with the ‘Newspaper Letters to the Editor’ conference.”<\/p>\n

Via Jim McCranium<\/a>‘s blog I see this link<\/a>, and reiteration of something I noted linked to dailykos a while back but quickly denoted as not particularly relevant to my thought process, which was something to the effect that the national has largely been cornered, and a good niche that political bloggers should be interested in is local. We now have had a series of election cycles that, due to the nature of non-first Tuesday in November in even year elections, where local bloggers have been prominent and, genuinely shown their muscle and influence: Connecticut has “myleftnutmeg”; Ohio had some Paul Hacket-blogs; Virginia had “Raising Kaine”, which also takes credit, though in this case undeserved, for the rise of Jim Webb to Democratic Senate candidate. And I wonder about the Democratic primary in Montana.<\/p>\n

Okay. For the sake of Fighting the Good Fight, I will now do some local blogging and influence the Congressional elections in my state. I, in my time in Portland, have bounced back and forth between Earl Blumenauer’s district and David Wu’s district. I will now put in a good word for the two and completely reshape the political landscape.<\/p>\n

We must re-elect Earl Blumenauer. To show how dire the situation is, I point to his Republican opponent, a loathsome creature if there ever was. His Republican opponent is an entity of no experience, seductive as that is to our political independents, and a literal blank slate.<\/p>\n

And by literal blank slate, I do mean literal blank slate. The Republican opponent to Earl Blumenauer is non-existent. He, or she, eludes description and is difficult to grasp. Do not let this blank slate into office! Please, for the love of God, do not write out a name on this blank slate!!<\/p>\n

Well. That felt good. I think I just bumped Earl Blumenauer past the finish line.<\/p>\n

David Wu? I don’t know. He is the most indistinguished Congress-critter in the entire Oregon delegation. I can name the niches that every other Oregon House member has bobbed up, but David Wu is distinguished for being indistinguished. I guess in a chamber of 435 people, someone is just going to have to fall through the cracks, and that person’s name is… David Wu.<\/p>\n

I hate this state’s politics. After November we will have had the same five members in Congress, and to come to think of it the same two Senators, for a full decade. Is there any end in sight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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