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14

All Women Blogging Carnival #16

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Let’s Get Happy is hosting this week’s edition of the All Women Blogging Carnival, which, I believe, is #16. What I love about this carnival is its international appeal.  Really makes it fun.

If you’d like to make a submission to the next week All Women Blogging Carnival, please use their carnival submission form.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:22 pm October 14th, 2007 in Blogroll, Carnivals, Women | Comments Off 

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14

Google bans anti-MoveOn campaign ads

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If you haven’t discovered epolitics.com, I suggest you check it out. In addition to material in its blog, it provides many tools and free downloads of advice about using eletronic media for political campaigns.

Two days ago, they posted this entry, titled, “Google Bans Senatorial Campaign’s Anti-MoveOn.org Ads.”

Interesting move: Google has stopped publication of a political campaign’s search ads that used MoveOn.org as a hook. According to The Examiner,

The ads banned by Google were placed by a firm working for Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ re-election campaign. Collins is seeking her third term.

Earlier this week, Google told Lance Dutson, president of Maine Coast Designs, that the ads he placed for Collins had been removed and would not be allowed to resume because they violated Google’s trademark policy.

Google’s Web site states, “Google takes allegations of trademark infringement very seriously and, as a courtesy, we’re happy to investigate matters raised by trademark owners.” That suggests Google acted in response to a complaint by MoveOn.org.

Read the rest of the post because the blog author works to tell you just how keeping your eyes out on the Internet, and through which tools, can help you reap information that will be useful to your campaign.  The related links do the same.

I found epolitics.com the night before the Bliss Institute presentation and none of the consultants there, young or old, had ever heard of it.


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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:04 am October 14th, 2007 in Blogging, Campaigning, Elections, Politics, Resources | Comments Off 

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Oct

14

The Blackwell Effect

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Someone is going to need to explain to me why Virginia Republicans would continue down a path that could lead to the nomination, for one of its U.S. Senate seats, of a conservative (former governor, Jim Gilmore – who keeps a blog that uses the same template as WLST), over a moderate (Rep. Tom Davis), when the conservative is polling 35 points behind the Democratic incumbent (Mark Warner) and the moderate is polling 22 points behind.

Is it just to say, we’re more conservative than you are and can nominate whomever we want even though we know we will lose, so there?

Or what? I do not get it.

Why are moderates so abhorrent?

These folks must think that they are immortal or something and will live long enough to see such behaviors pay off. Because it sure isn’t going to happen in their life time.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:43 am October 14th, 2007 in Elections, Government, Politics | 6 Comments 

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