Word: warners
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...radio and potential 2008 candidates recognize left-wing blogs could prove a powerful force in the Democratic primaries. "It?s only been in the past couple of years that I started to fully appreciate the power of what?s going on in the blogosphere," says former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, a likely Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. "These changes are coming and we can either fight them or embrace them." Warner has begun calling bloggers in Iowa, the site of the first presidential caucuses - among them Chris Woods, who writes for a site called politicalforecast.net...
...Capitol, where they can ask the members questions. Republican Bill Frist, another potential 2008 candidate, has 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...
...relationship will always be complicated. Warner notes that Iowa bloggers are occasionally wary of him, wondering if "we are being manipulated" by a candidate reaching out to them. "People [on the Internet] kind of look at things with jaundiced eyes," he says. "When you?re out campaigning and meeting people, people may think ?gosh, that answer stinks,' but normally keep comments to themselves. In the blogosphere, you make a comment, there?s no compunction with people saying I disagree." But Warner, like many pols, says he'll keep trying to try to connect with the Internet constituency...
...drawn a diverse crowd of supporters. Conservative columnist George F. Will has written an approving article about him, three retired generals have endorsed him, and he has raised thousands of dollars from Hollywood for his campaign. He also seems to have the backing of former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, a moderate Democrat who will probably run for President in 2008. Warner, who initially encouraged businessman Harris Miller to run, has said he will stay neutral before the primary. But he may be changing his bet: he makes his first public appearance with Webb this week, at a fund raiser...