Comment 40842

By Praise the Hummer (anonymous) | Posted May 18, 2010 at 21:32:49

"You'll notice Praise the Hummer stops counting the month Di Ianni after loses the election."

Purposefully so. I was just illustrating the standard pace for months during the year prior to the election. In the six weeks after the election there were all of 10 posts. (I spared RTH readers a more thorough accounting of the foibles of CATCH reporting, which is often its own worst enemy.)

My point being that CATCH (and many others) were so focused on defeating DiIanni that they never considered that their fondest wishes might come true, hence the speechlessness after the the Eisenberger win. I'm not saying that CACH/VIEW are more powerful than the Spec, but they do reach an audience that does include voting age adults, and in considerably larger numbers than local blog pundits (awesome though you are). CATCH itself not so much but they do get reprinted in VIEW, which gives them 40,000 copies every week (contrast this with a site like The Hamiltonian, which is more politically mature but it has drawn 100,000 hits since January 2009).

Or maybe there was some sway from the now largely forgotten Eisenberger social media campaign, which probably didn't electrify anyone but might have made him more relatable among first-time voters.

I don't think you can discount the influence of any of these factors. Anyone's guess, really.

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