{"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 “Sponsorships”? This will be fun to watch . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Tribbet, author of the Not Larry Sabato blog*, has announced<\/a> that:<\/p>\n

[F]ormer Governor Mark Warner[‘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>\n

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

Is this really something candidates want to do? When I hear “strategic partnership”, 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

I’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’s going to be a whole lot harder when it’s “strategic partnership” describing the relationship, and not “political advertising on a blog.”<\/p>\n

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*And originator of the clever-the-first-time-but-now-thoroughly-played-out-Not-Some-Name-meme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Tribbet, author of the Not Larry Sabato blog*, has announced that: [F]ormer Governor Mark Warner[‘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","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t