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Keeping up with the MyDDs and dKoses

By N in Seattle
Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 01:32:35 PM PST
Section: Pacific Northwest Topic: Repubs

In the last couple of days, Chris Bowers of MyDD has been developing a web-based tactic for the upcoming election.  Our good friend rmdSeaBos wrote a WashBlog diary about it the other day.

The tactic is now fully functional, ready to roll.  A few minutes ago, Brian wrote a comment on rmdSeaBos's diary, listing the full set of Republican House and Senate candidates being targeted.  To augment that, however, I figure it can't hurt to produce a front page story that specifies our local/regional targets.

Here are the targeted Washington candidates:

Unfortunately, Peter Goldmark's opponent in WA-05 didn't make the final cut in Chris's list.  However, the Congressional District adjoining WA-05 to the east is on the roster. That's:

And, because I have a personal connection to Democratic contender Paul Hodes (he and I were college classmates, lo these many years ago), I'm adding the following GOP candidate to this post:

As I understand it, it's not even necessary for readers to click on the links shown above.  But I'm not sure of that, so to be on the safe side I suggest that everyone who reads this story should click on each of the links at least once.

Or twice.

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Please drop a quick comment after you've done the "click the links" thing.

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by N in Seattle on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 01:34:33 PM PST

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Clicking links not necessary
The way this will work is simply by the Google bot crawling a lot of pages that have the same link, making that link more prominent in the search engine's "mind", pushing it up the list so that it rises to the top of a search for the candidate in question.

I must admit however that the choice of the URLs should have been made more carefully.  None of us have previously bothered to discuss the arson story regarding Reichert, and quite frankly, as bad as it is, it won't register as much as the other articles linked to from that page regarding his Green River myth.

Personally I would have liked to have pushed a posting by one of the bloggers about some of this or his voting record.  That's stuff the press hasn't covered as the should.  Who cares where it comes from.  I get a ton of hits that come from a Google search, so people click through to the content regardless of the source if the page title attracts their attention enough.

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by Daniel K on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 02:44:25 PM PST

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  • I think by N in Seattle, 10/24/2006 03:34:40 PM PST (5.00 / 1)
Embed the list into the blog's template?
Does anyone know how to do that? Tell us and we will do it here.

by Brian on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 03:39:01 AM PST

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  • I wondered too by N in Seattle, 10/26/2006 07:55:37 PM PST (none / 0)
might be just a drop in the bucket, OR
it might be dumping the mississippi in the bucket, BUT

we don't know how big the bucket is and we won't know which drop mattered when

(contrary to the CW of the well paid pundits)

BUT

I feel good about this project.

rmm.

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by rmdSeaBos on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 05:32:06 PM PST

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