November 13, 2004

Did Blogs Tip election 2004: Update

Posted by Henry

For anyone planning to come along to the debate, there has been a venue change - the details are below. For anyone wanting to know what I’m going to say in response to the question, the short answer is ‘no, they didn’t.’

WHEN:
Thursday, November 18
7:30-9:00 pm

WHERE (note new location!):
Porter’s Dining Saloon
1207 19th St. NW (19th and M Street)
Washington, DC

Posted on November 13, 2004 04:46 PM UTC
Comments

I thought that might be your answer. Be prepared, though, to answer the question: “Did blogs keep it close?”

Posted by jam · November 13, 2004 06:19 PM

My answer would be that the blogs were used to good effect by both sides for fund raising. Plus, they helped to spread the candidates messages, or in the Democratic case, to expand the message beyond where Kerry wanted to go. But, they had no great effect overall.

Posted by Vaughn Hopkins · November 13, 2004 09:51 PM

Henry, any plans for posting audio/video on the web? The paper you wrote with dsquared on blogging was great. I’d like to see how some of those propositions fare in that discussion.

Posted by dk.dk · November 15, 2004 12:43 AM

… in the debate I mean.
(repeated language shifts aren’t always seamless at this hour)

Posted by dk.dk · November 15, 2004 12:46 AM

I don’t know. I think RedState.org deserves a Hell of a lot of credit.

Posted by Matt Singer · November 15, 2004 01:45 AM

Henry,

in case Kerry had won(/won Ohio) - would your answer be the same? Just wondering…

Posted by Tobias · November 15, 2004 08:37 PM

in case Kerry had won(/won Ohio) - would your answer be the same? Just wondering…

Yes - I don’t see how blogs would have affected things much the other way either.

Posted by Henry · November 15, 2004 08:43 PM

dk.dk - it may be that C-SPAN is filming it - if so, I’ll link to it in the comments afterwards.

Posted by Henry · November 18, 2004 04:17 PM
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