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Posted at 2:17pm on Mar. 19, 2008 Andrew Sullivan and the hard bigotry of expectations
The distorting effects of emotion based politics
By Kevin Holtsberry
Let's pretend for a moment that Andrew Sullivan cared about logic or reason or facts or anything but what makes him feel all tingly inside.
I know this is quite a counter-factual, but hang with me. If Andrew could get past his love affair with Barry he might just be able to comprehend that Barack Obama is a leftist. That he is a traditional big government liberal whose entire platform runs counter to the basic conception of conservatism.
Fancy rhetoric and a cool persona can't change that. Wanting to move past the ugliness of the Clinton years, while laudable, doesn't change that. Even attempting to run for president while not explicitly appealing to race doesn't change that on iota. As Ross Douthat, whose patience with Andrew and his own comment section is beyond my comprehension, has pointed out, Obama wants to move the country to the left.
Just because he wants to emulate Reagan's impact on his party and the country doesn't make him a conservative nor a Reaganite in any way shape or form. And saying so has absolutely nothing to do with race.
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Posted at 10:15am on May 7, 2007 Who are you? The BlogReaderProject
By krempasky
Like Glenn, RedState no longer uses BlogAds for advertising sales. That said, Henry Copeland has been one of the mediums great supporters for a long time. He's launched the Blog Reader Project, a wide survey of blog readership across not only political lines, but completely different spheres as well. If you're a RedState reader, you can fill out a survey here. (All information is kept confidential, etc.)
One of the largest obstacles for building a successful new medium is the ability to show return on investment to large advertisers. Print and broadcast media have for decades studied their demographics carefully to deliver the right kind of readers/viewers to the right kind of advertisers. The Blog Reader Project is a great tool for the blogosphere - and for RedState. While the personal information completed by survey takers remains confidential - the aggregate data for RedState readers specifically will be used to help RedState continue to grow and be successful.
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