{"id":643,"date":"2003-09-17T12:16:57","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T17:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/643.html"},"modified":"2003-09-17T12:16:57","modified_gmt":"2003-09-17T17:16:57","slug":"dnc-launches-a-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/dnc-launches-a-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC launches a blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic National Committee has been learning for months &#8212; mainly by watching the Dean campaign &#8212; that the Internet can be a critical tool in political communications, fundraising, and activism.<\/p>\n<p>The DNC just didn&#8217;t seem to know what to do about it.<\/p>\n<p>The party took a huge step in the right direction a few days ago by launching its own blog. They even came up with a clever name for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/blog\/\">Kicking Ass: Daily Dispatches from the DNC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far, so good. Looks like it&#8217;s been put together well and has some strong content. Kicking Ass even has an excellent blog roll featuring all of the left&#8217;s heaviest hitters of bloggers.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is the right move at the right time. The DNC can issue press releases ten times a day, but having a blog will have a far more significant impact in getting the Dem message to people who are anxious to hear it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic National Committee has been learning for months &#8212; mainly by watching the Dean campaign &#8212; that the Internet can be a critical tool in political communications, fundraising, and activism. The DNC just didn&#8217;t seem to know what to do about it. The party took a huge step in the right direction a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}