Rumors in America (and rumours in Canada) have been swirling about how blogs may someday displace mainstream media as the authoritative source for news and information. Well, today, it happened.
For the first time in the annals of recorded history, a blogger has made endorsements for every race in the United States. (That blogger was me.) This massive undertaking definitively places bloggers at the top of the “Authority Spiral Cheese Pile,” as sociologist Max Weber might have put it.
And what’s even better, I’ve made it easy for y’all to put the Gleeson 2004 Endorsements form right on your own website! Just a line of code will do it. A longish line.
This experiment in fully informed democracy will benefit from your feedback. Please leave comments here. And link to it from your website. (Sure, I’ll give you a trackback.)
See, it’s so good we have kind people such as yourself around to look out for your fellow man.
Undecided voters all over the country were no doubt waiting for your official nod before they committed to a candidate.
Did I spell ‘committed’ right?
Having recently moved here from Florida, I find these endorsements confusing. How am I supposed to know which ones are Republican? Plus, you don’t tell me where I go to vote, or how to work the voting thingy.
Hmmm, Although I now live in Virginia, I grew up in the US Virgin Islands, zip 00801, and you don’t have any endorsements that I can send my parents. Granted, we can’t vote in national elections, but we do elect a non-voting Congressman and a state legislature. Unfortunately you can’t just endorse the Republicans, because there aren’t enough running.
Otherwise, thanks for the guidance.
We call ‘em the way we see ‘em
Apart from the state questions, I haven’t made any specific recommendations for the election next Tuesday; whatever endorsements I wind up making will probably show up over the weekend while…
Travis, thank you for your valuable feedback. Because of scheduling conflicts, I was unable to make the fact-finding trip to St. Croix which would have enabled me to endorse candidates in the U.S.V.I. But if I were able, I probably would have endorsed the Republicans, even in races where none was on the ballot. A voter can always write in “I WANT A REPUBLICAN,” you know. (That’s what I used to do in Chicago.)
Well, now it’s settled. I’m voting Republican. I was going to anyways, and nothing was going to change my mind, but now I am sure…even though I was already…no turning back now…thanks Gleeson. Go W! P.S. Doesn’t Kerry look like an Irish Setter?
No, I am put more in mind of a Basset Hound. It’s only when he’s campaigning in Boston that he turns Irish.
While I seriously considered your endorsements for my local area . . . I doubt I’ll vote Republican. Can we still be friends? Okay, taking my liberal butt else where!!
Totally off topic but Sean, your little doodle of yourself at the top of the page looks a lot like the father on the PBS show George Shrinks. LOL
Sure, Jaime, we can still be friends, but the wedding’s off. I had never heard of “George Shrinks,” so I looked it up. His dad, Harold Shrinks, does resemble me, but they changed it just enough that they don’t owe me any royalties. Pity.
Still undecided? Maybe Sean can help!
From Sean Gleeson
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