{"id":742,"date":"2008-04-15T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/15\/nls-sponsorships-this-will-be-fun-to-watch\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T23:11:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T04:11:44","slug":"nls-sponsorships-this-will-be-fun-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/15\/nls-sponsorships-this-will-be-fun-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"NLS &#8220;Sponsorships&#8221;?  This will be fun to watch . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Tribbet, author of the Not Larry Sabato blog*, has <a href=\"http:\/\/notlarrysabato.typepad.com\/doh\/2008\/04\/mark-warner-spo.html\">announced<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[F]ormer Governor Mark Warner[&#8216;s] Senate campaign is sponsoring NLS and RK for 2008. A link to his website is in the upper right hand corner of the site- and we will be bringing you special content from the Warner campaign throughout the year!<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Sponsorships are available only to candidates I am strongly supporting, and it means a strategic partnership between this blog and their campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Is this really something candidates want to do?  When I hear &#8220;strategic partnership&#8221;, it brings message coordination and blessing to mind.  Now, that may be exactly what the blog wants, but I can imagine a campaign really regretting that the first time a blog says something stupid or otherwise reaches further than the campaign might, itself.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I&#8217;m near certain that there will come a time where the campaign will want to distance itself from something said at RK or NLS.  And it&#8217;s going to be a whole lot harder when it&#8217;s &#8220;strategic partnership&#8221; describing the relationship, and not &#8220;political advertising on a blog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*And originator of the clever-the-first-time-but-now-thoroughly-played-out-Not-Some-Name-meme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Tribbet, author of the Not Larry Sabato blog*, has announced that: [F]ormer Governor Mark Warner[&#8216;s] Senate campaign is sponsoring NLS and RK for 2008. A link to his website is in the upper right hand corner of the site- and we will be bringing you special content from the Warner campaign throughout the year! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}