May the Best Blog Win
Firedoglake blogs about the race to contribute to the campaign of Ciro Rodriguez:
Atrios and Kos both posted today about their page view-to-donation ratio for the Ciro Rodriguez fundraising drive. I’m quite proud to announce that we have the highest percentage of donors relative to readership of any of the three and we also have the highest donor average. And we’ve now raised almost $10,000 for Ciro’s campaign. Need more reason to dig into your mad money? Cuellar supports more more more war, while Ciro voted against Bush’s war authorization. People do a great job around here of getting involved, writing their representatives, penning damn-the-torpedo LTEs and in general celebrating their right to participate in the democratic process. The blogs will begin to be taken seriously as a political force when we prove we can enter a race and back a winner, so please treat yourself and enjoy kicking a little DINO ass by contributing to Ciro here.
Click here to get the latest on-line totals from Act Blue, the contribution clearinghouse for Democratic candidates (as of Wednesday, 7 am Pacific time, it is $71 thousand). When you see the mainstream press stories on the phenomenon later this week, remember that Colin Strother of the Cuellar campaign last week taunted the blogs by saying it would be a “one-day story.”
