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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is one of the many Washington politicians trying to adapt to the world of blogs. Last month, she went on the liberal blog Daily Kos to tell readers about her resolution calling for congressional investigations into GOP lawmakers' connections with lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The liberal blogs love politicians like Pelosi who are feisty and aggressive, so the visit to Daily Kos, which gets more than 500,000 visitors a day, seemed likely to win her new fans...
...blogs also prefer their guests to engage in conversations. So when Pelosi posted on Daily Kos and then didn?t respond to any of the hundreds of comments users made in response - instead returning to her day job of leading the 201 Democrats in House - one Daily Kos user accused her of "hit and run diaries," while another griped: "Daily Kos is not your personal press release piggybank." The next day, she returned to the blog to try to explain herself. "I don?t have the kind of schedule that allows me to respond to every comment," Pelosi wrote...
...talked to the bloggers who run powerlineblog and instapundit, two big conservative sites. John Edwards had a group of about 10 key bloggers to his home for a dinner last year. Warner, Reid and Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, another potential 2008 candidate, will all head in June to Yearly Kos, a convention Daily Kos is organizing in Las Vegas...
...Several of the potential presidential contenders have already hired staffers to help them connect with the online world. Warner now spends one hour each week with his blog advisor, a prominent liberal blogger named Jerome Armstrong. After Pelosi was bashed for not sticking around to answer questions on Daily Kos, Warner?s team helped him avoid making the same mistake: after Warner posted on Daily Kos and left for a trip to Iowa, one of his online staffers, Nate Wilcox, stayed around to respond to questions. (Some people still wanted to hear more from the candidate himself. "The comments were...
...outside the tent pissing in." The politicians hope that by developing a close relationship with like-minded blogs, the bloggers will feel more like part of the team and will temper their criticism. But even friendly blogs aren't easy to satisfy - as Pelosi found out after her Daily Kos encounter. Democratic aides complain that Matt Stoller, a blogger for mydd.com, another popular liberal site, never seems satisfied Democrats are being tough enough. "I don?t think we?re well-liked, necessarily," Stoller said. Bloggers often complain, moreover, about being spoon-fed information they could just as easily...