My local newspaper, The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, front-paged DailyKos today in an article entitled "Let the Cyber Campaigning Begin."
"Lynn Woolsey blogged on Daily Kos, a political hot spot on the information superhighway.
"By posting her proposal to repeal President Bush's Iraq war powers on the popular progressive Web log at 6:58 a.m. on July 25, the North Bay congresswoman sent a message to the world - and scooped herself."
The article, which can be read in its entirety http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/... here, goes on to say this about DailyKos:
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"Launched just four years ago, Daily Kos has become an Internet top gun with more than 500,000 visits a day. It's just one address in a fast-growing subdivision of cyberspace called the blogosphere that is certain to influence the election season that kicks off Labor Day weekend.
"It's the 24-hour news cycle on steroids," said Woolsey aide Chris Shields, who monitors the blogs and helped usher his boss, a 14-year congressional veteran, into the new net-powered arena."
This particularly tickles me because Faux News and The Press Democrat are my repug friend's sole sources of news other than me, who she tries very hard to ignore.
Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, located in Northern California approximately 60 miles north of San Francisco. Its main claim to fame is its numerous wineries. In 2000 Sonoma County had an approximate population of 500,000.
We've been pretty blue here since 1992 where registered Democrats were 52.8%, 55.6 in 1996, 59.5 in 2000, and 67.2 in 2004.