Calling All Bloggers: Who Are You Endorsing?
By Micah L. Sifry, 10/03/2007 - 11:20pm

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While a quick glance at the biggest political blogs suggests that none of the presidential candidates have caught fire, lots of political bloggers are declaring their allegiance to a candidate, either with a post or by putting a button or badge on their site.

But it's not all that easy to find those blogs. There are a couple of great sites devoted to particular candidates that serve as hubs or aggregators of bloggers devoted to that person. Those include Blogs for Fred (Thompson), RudyBlogs (Giuliani), The 35Percenters (Kucinich), and the DailyPaul (Ron Paul). (And if you google for "blogs for hillary" the top result is a site called Blogs Against Hillary, which has dozens of sites listed in its blogroll. I couldn't find a good Blogs for Hillary aggregator, though the campaign's HillaryHub obviously points to the best pro-Clinton blogging.) But as far as I can tell, none of the campaign websites have put up a big blogroll of all the bloggers supporting their champion. If you're a reporter looking to find local bloggers backing a particular candidate, good luck.

So, here's a call to bloggers everywhere: If you've decided on your presidential candidate, let us know. You can start by just adding a comment with your name, blog url, link to a post with your endorsement (if any), and if you feel like it, your city and state. We'll build a directory to make it easy to find out who is supporting whom, and we'll make it in such a way that it's easy to add additional names.

I spent a few hours today looking for this information, and emailing campaign internet staff to ask for their help. So far, here's what I got:

The Fred Thompson campaign was among the fastest to respond, and they sent me a list of more than 200 bloggers who have signed up to place a Thompson widget on their site. A random sample includes: Ordinary Everyday Christian, Exposing the Left, Alpha Patriot, The Real Gun Guys, Conservative Girl, Irate Nation, HolySmokeHams, and my favorite, Mike Turk's KungfuQuip. (Thanks Mike for helping out in responding so quickly.) Also, there's a big list of self-identified of Fredheads here, at Blogs for Fred.

Tracy Russo at the John Edwards campaign pointed me to this recent blog post on their site, which lists several bloggers for Edwards. Those include Dana Blankenhorn, David Mizner at MyDD, Perry Dorrell at Brains & Eggs, Mooncat at Left in Alabama, Jordan Klein, and Vince Leibowitz of the Texas blog Capitol Annex. Liebowitz lists several more bloggers who are Edwards fans here. They are The Texas Clover Leaf, TXSharon at Blue Daze, Refinish69 at Doing My Part for the Left, Hal at Half Empty, Neal A. at The Texas Liberal, Asa Hopkins of The Means and the Ends, and The Pennsylvania Progressive. Edwards also has earned the backing of Kari Chisholm at Blue Oregon.

Katie Harbath at the Rudy Giuliani campaign sent a nicely organized list, including: RudyRoots, Social Conservatives For Rudy, Flap's Blog/Giuliani Blog, Texans For Rudy, Vets4Rudy, Draft Rudy Giuliani, Students for Giuliani, and Bloggers 4 Rudy.

Matt Browner-Hamlin at Chris Dodd's campaign wrote back with these names: Big Tent Democrat of TalkLeft & MyDD, Dean Barker of Blue Hampshire, Gabe of CT Local Politics & Left Coaster, and Joh Padgett of Monticello & Blue Indiana, among others.

I'd love to add lists for all the other campaigns not mentioned here, but they haven't responded yet. I'll update this post as they do. And as I said above, if you're an individual blogger who wants to declare him or herself, chime in in the comments below.

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How about...

Justin Hart of MyManMitt.com?

By Jonathan Rick at Thu, 10/04/2007 - 4:11am | login or register to post comments

Blogs For Ron Paul

The best site I know that lists all the blogs and sites that support Ron Paul is "The Ron Paul Database":

http://theronpauldatabase.googlepages.com/

I have asked them to add two other blogs that support Ron Paul as follows:

Show Us The Inherent Law - which supports Ed and Elaine Brown
http://questforfairtrialinconcordnh.blogspot.com/

The Freedom Fellowship
http://thefreedomfellowship.blogspot.com/

TechPresident & Electronic Vote Fraud: Is there any chance of getting coverage of this issue on your site?

There are many leading Ron Paul supporters that are working on a very leading-edge issue which we hope the Ron Paul campaign officially addresses at some point very soon: electronic vote fraud. The Vote In Sunshine Coalition is part of this initiative which was created to shine the light on the very real potential for electronic voting machines to disenfranchise the votes of Ron Paul supporters at the Iowa Straw Poll. We The People Congress (wethepeoplecongress.org), Citizens For A Fair Vote Count (votefraud.org), and Vote Rescue (voterescue.org) are the main groups behind this coalition. We are in the the process of filing a lawsuit on every one of the 50 States. Please visit....

http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/Update2007-10-02.htm

http://www.voteinsunshine.com

In addition to the above it would be very interesting for TechPresident to cover "the incredible collapsing primary season". New Hampshire just announced that Democrats and Independents must register to change their party affiliation no later than October 12, 2007 if they plan on voting for a Republican - like Ron Paul - in the primary in January (22). There's talk that the NH primary might be moved all the way back to early December. Ron Paul supporters believe that "the incredible collapsing primary season" is directly related to the fact the attempt by the corporate elites that control our country to suppress Ron Paul's Constitutional message of peace, freedom, liberty, protection of private property and limited government.

I am one of the organizers and co-hosts on a National Ron Paul Meetup Conference Call that's been going on every Thursday for the past 16+ weeks. We would love to have you on this call to bring more awareness to your great site as a way of educating Ron Paul supporters nationwide about the digital tracking/measuring/traffic tools your site highlights on an ongoing basis. The call begins at 9 pm eastern - 605-475-8500 PIN 5092984.

Feel free to call me anytime.

Peace and God Bless,

Fred Smart
The Freedom Fellowship
http://www.thefreedomfellowship.blogspot.com
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By smartbandwidth at Thu, 10/04/2007 - 8:45am | login or register to post comments

answering your call...

They're not necessarily "political", but I have three blogs and on all of them I'm endorsing... Ron Paul!

http://serenadeingreen.blogspot.com/
http://exhumedephemera.blogspot.com/
http://berghoffmemorial.blogspot.com/

Stephen V Funk
Chicago, IL

By funks at Fri, 10/05/2007 - 12:51pm | login or register to post comments

Who am I endorsing

While it's a small blog, I endorse Ron Paul @ Area 417 (www.area417.com)

By pcampbell at Sun, 10/07/2007 - 8:44pm | login or register to post comments

Web campaigns

Internet has really changed the 2008 campaign. Just watch the report on www.ipolinamerica.com. This is just amazing !

By Drey at Mon, 10/08/2007 - 6:01am | login or register to post comments

My endorsements

I've been considering building a little public application that can collect this information more efficiently, into a database. Contact me (lamp5matt at gmail) to discuss.

Meantime, here's my blog. Yes, it's another notch for Ron Paul

btetc.blogspot.com

By LeFou at Fri, 10/12/2007 - 11:22am | login or register to post comments

I realize that Ron Paul's

I realize that Ron Paul's campaign is growing at the speed of light, but the site you listed http://theronpauldatabase.googlepages.com/ has a lot of really outdated stats

By RPmaniac at Fri, 10/12/2007 - 6:00pm | login or register to post comments

neoperspectives.com endorsed Ron Paul

On 1/11/07 our blog, www.neoperspectives.com endorsed Ron Paul for President immediately upon learning of his formation of an 'exploratory committee'.

http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm

Our blog is not huge, but we've been running for a few years and receive aprox 200,000 hits a month.

-Travis

By traviskicks at Sat, 10/13/2007 - 1:35pm | login or register to post comments

Endorsing Joe Biden

The senator from Delaware has the experience, intelligence and the right plan for America. We need Joe Biden in the White House. He is gaining traction in all the early battleground states; Hillary and Co. may be in for a surprise, ala Howard Dean.

Editor
SoonerThought.Blogspot.com

By SoonerThought at Wed, 10/17/2007 - 2:21pm | login or register to post comments

Bloggers for Kucinich

Since you're looking for lists, the Blogroll at The 35 Percenters (linked in your article) is actually comprised of all pro-Kucinich blogs who endorse him for president.

By Manila_Ryce at Fri, 10/19/2007 - 6:53pm | login or register to post comments



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