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OUR Blog compared to Hillarys

By The Pollitikat - May 8th, 2008 at 7:53 am EDT

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Tags: blogging, Indiana, Obama

After reading the late night open thread I had to go and visit Hillarys website. I do that from time to time to see what is going on over there. Frankly I find Hillarys site over stimulating and yet extremely boring. There is so much going on all of reminds me of a poorly constructed sales brochure. Hillblazer, FactHub, Hillary Hub, and a blog that is censored. It looks exciting but managages to disapoint. There are so many colors and flashing lights on that website you feel like you are at a carnival and you know you're about to lose money or dignity.

Her website is not constantly changing and providing information up front. You have to search her site to find the delegate count because she does not want her supporters to care about that. She does not show the map of states because she does not want her supporters to see the drastic difference in the amount of contests won. Her blog does not have devoted regulars like lace, bahamasforobama, or SaSa. She is only on six web communities-obama is everywhere. We have blog posting comments often go into the the high hundreds, she rarely breakes 150 yes she has had more traffic in the past day or two because of the primary but check back on friday and you will see a significant drop off. There is no question that Obama gets significantly more comment postings.

This blog is streamlined and color coordinated, it is constantly updated and visually pleasing to the eye. It is consistant with the use of the logo, and entertaining. It allows it users to freely communicate with each other and the campaign. It is filled with information both from the campaign and the users. We dont censor, you can tell by the amount of trolls lurking throughout, some being very destructive.

Importantly this blog is filled with hope, encourage, a sense of community, we share and we are charitable to each other, and it is all played out on this blog. Yes, we are unique.

Guys I just came back from Indiana I drove thirteen hours each way. Things were so intense there I did not get a chance to blog while I was there. I did get to see our leader and next president in Indianapolis. I took some great pictures and I plan to post later when I write about the trip.

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By Retysent May 8th 2008 at 8:09 am EDT

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post.

Be blest!

Retysent.

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By Shantal from Forrest City, AR May 8th 2008 at 8:13 am EDT

Great post. You know, I agree with you 100%, about how Hillary board is. I too, have visit but you can't blog with others. I love that Barack's board lets all blog. I know we get some unwanted visitors from time to time, but I say welcome them in so that they can feel the love on this board. I believe now if they get the nerve to blog here, It's our duty to try to inform, embrace, or even persuade that Hillary supporter our way. It is like organizing, phonecalling, or any other way to get people to back our guy. This was such a great post by you I had to let you know. Welcome back, from Indianna.

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By Muppet May 8th 2008 at 9:03 am EDT

I lived in Indiana but am now in Germany and I too just returned from there. I was in South Bend where there was alot of support for both candidates. I was the only Obama supporter in my family but that's okay. No one wanted Hillary. Anyway, thank you for driving there to help support Obama. I wished I could have done more, but after being out of the country for 15 months, I didn't have time to campaign. I did wear my Obama Mama button which many people chuckled about.
You're so right about Hillary's web site. A total turnoff for me. I have visited just to see what it is about but it completely turned me off. And it's moderated too much.
I'm jealous that you got to see our next president. He was there the day I left town. Take care. Yes. We. Can!

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