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Rebuilding starts at the state level

Submitted by RYC on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 02:06
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    To rebuild the GOP more attention should be spent at the state legaslature and county/municipal levels.  Remember that Obama spent 7 years in the Illionois state house.  Jeff Merkley who on Nov. 4th became by state's second democratic senator was our state's House speaker before he won the Senate seat. Sarah Palin as you all know started her career as the mayor of small-town Wasilla. 

Not only do candidates usually start out at the state and local level but also policy ideas (my apologies but I can't think of any off the top of my head right now).
Along with implementing a 435 district strategy for the U.S. House, we should also put in an equal amount of effort (if not more effort) and money into state legislature races. 
 
If in your state there is a new policy idea or a bill of some sort and it aligns with conservative principals push and I mean push (as much as you can of course) for its passing and implementation.  If it’s liberal am to kill it.  More attention should be spent on state political activism than national activism, because if something is successful at the state level it might catch the attention of the other states (also think of a delicate flower in a small planting pot that needs careful watering before being planted in with the larger garden) and killing a bad (and by bad I mean liberal) idea at the state level just might kill it off for good (think cancer).
The above of course is a long term commitment that needs to be diligently pursued for many more years beyond the next election cycle. 
 
 

 

Blogospheric election coverage

Submitted by David Mastio on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 15:45
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[Promoted - In BlogNetNews Elections, David Mastio has built a very interesting, useful tool for tracking online conversations about specific races around the country.  I can see this being valuable not just to the campaign watchers, but also to the people actively involved in campaigns.   Please check it out - and make sure you submit additional races you want them to follow.  The "counsel" that Mastio kindly attributes to me was merely a couple thoughts about the user experience; the credit goes entirely to him and his team.

David Mastio has been a leader on the Right in developing good online products and services.  We need more people doing this. - Jon Henke]

Following local and state elections through the eyes of local bloggers is about to get a lot easier. For the last two years, my partner and I have been been building BlogNetNews.com to be the first bipartisan aggregator of public affairs and news blogs that covers all 50 states.  A typical page  gives readers links to the latest posts, the most popular posts , a local blog search engine and a bunch of other features.

But now that we have all 50 states built and the matchups for the Fall elections are starting to firm up, we've launched something I think is even more powerful. BlogNetNews.com/Elections

Click on the map and go to the state you want, then click on the race you want to read about. Two clicks simple.

Instead of relying on the MSM to be the filter of election news, BNN/Elections lets readers and bloggers use the blogosphere as a filter, gathering links and excerpts of all the latest posts in one place and constantly updating them.

All we need now is for the experts on the ground to help us find the most important elections to cover. We've already loaded in the governors races, the U.S. Senate races and many of the most competitive U.S. House races. At the bottom of each state page is a link to a form where you can suggest races for us to cover. We'll try to be updating every day this week within hours of your suggestions.

Thanks to Jon Henke's counsel, we've already started to add features that should make BNN/Elections more useful. Every state now has a permalink so you can skip the map once you know where you want to go and there is an RSS feed from the left and right for each race so you can subscribe to the posts you want to follow.

We're looking for your ideas on how to improve the site too, so send any ideas to me at editor@blognetnews.com or if you want to submit your blog to become part of BNN, all you have to do is shoot me your URL with the state you are in and if your blog is focused on state and local issues we'll add it to BlogNetNews.com and if you focus on national issues, we'll add you to RightyBlogs.com .

 

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