Our friends over at Blue Hampshire, Dean Barker and Laura Clawson, we're featured on the front page of todays Wall Street Journal. The article talks about how local blogs are providing a way for candidates to reach out, especially those second tier Presidential candidates.
Wall Street Journal
Mr. Barker, a 36-year-old native New Yorker who lives in Andover, is one of three managing editors for "Blue Hampshire," a Democratic blog that has quickly become an influential voice in the New Hampshire primary campaign.
Traffic averages only about 800 readers a day. But with fans that include state Democratic activists and high-ranking party leaders, the site and its founders, who have no professional political experience, are getting an unusual amount of personal attention from Democratic presidential campaigns this year.
"Sometimes I have to pinch myself," says one of Mr. Barker's co-founders, Laura Clawson, a 30-year-old postdoctoral fellow in sociology at Dartmouth. She recently took time from her studies for some one-on-one time with former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards aboard his campaign bus.
I think it's great that local blogs like these are starting to get some national exposure. I'm sure this won't be the last time we hear of Blue Hampshire, or any other local blogs. The 50 State Blog Strategy will be one of the largest influences on this upcoming election, making it easier to focus on local races and growing our majority district by district. Congratulation to Dean and Laura and the rest of the crew over at Blue Hampshire...keep up the good work!