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May 16, 2008

John McCain Ventures into Blogosphere, Attempts to Reach Liberal Voters

Sen. McCain has bravely crossed enemy lines before, but attempting to enter and win over the liberal blogosphere? Now that's gutsy.

Sen. McCain has been successful in communicating with conservative bloggers through conference calls during Republican primaries, and is building on this newly formed technological platform to tap into a new audience: liberal and non-political based bloggers.



Yesterday, Sen. McCain called on non-conservative bloggers to join in his regular blogger conference call, opening himself up to the merciless left blogosphere.



McCain's main guy in charge of blogger outreach, Patrick Hynes, said "The plan is to take the work we've already built on with conservative bloggers and to open up a dialogue with non-conservative bloggers and even nonpolitical bloggers." He continued, "We hope to be the most accessible and transparent campaign in history."



Although this declaration of campaign transparency seems ironic, given that the potential Republican First Lady recently refused to provide her tax information to the public, McCain's blogger outreach is making major leeway with both conservative and liberal bloggers who are having their questions and concerns answered.

Posted by Buzz Webster at May 16, 2008 05:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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