{"id":169,"date":"2003-04-18T08:51:20","date_gmt":"2003-04-18T13:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/169.html"},"modified":"2003-04-18T08:51:20","modified_gmt":"2003-04-18T13:51:20","slug":"bob-graham-please-call-your-webmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bob-graham-please-call-your-webmaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Graham, please call your webmaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Graham was making his first campaign swing through New Hampshire yesterday. It’s about time; his rivals for the Democratic nomination have been making dozens of trips to the state for months.<\/p>\n

During his trip, Graham started chatting with some folks on a lunch break in downtown Manchester. Graham was introducing himself to one woman, Karen Garriepy, who obviously had no idea who he was.<\/p>\n

“You’re running for\u2026?” she asked<\/a>. Graham explained that he was running for president and gave her a business card. Garriepy told a reporter after her conversation with the senator, “I’ll probably be checking him out online.”<\/p>\n

That’s a great idea, except for one small problem. Graham is the only candidate in the race that hasn’t set up a website.<\/p>\n

Sure, Graham’s got a very nice site<\/a> for his Senate office, but nothing for the presidential campaign. He’s been in the race for a couple of months now, and he’s been thinking about it for an even longer period of time. There’s really no excuse for dropping the ball on this.<\/p>\n

ABC News’ The Note<\/a> actually started checking every URL they could think of, including obvious ones such as grahamforpresident.com, graham2004.com, and bobgraham2004.com. Nothing.<\/p>\n

Jamal Simmons, one of Graham’s spokespersons, told The Note that a site is “in the works.” I only have one word of advice for the Graham campaign: Hurry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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