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Election 2004 and Political Blog


Political Blogs had played an important role in the Presidential Election in America in the year 2004. It is said that a flood of Political Blog at the time of election, turned computer into a political machine. Some blogs supported Bush and try to influence them for voting Bush, where as some supported Kerry and pointed out what will be happen if Kerry being a President of America. Daily Kos, National Review Online, Eschaton, Political Animal, Instapundit.com, Kausfiles.com, Andrew Sullivan, USS Clueless and Talking Points Memo are most of the popular political sites in the 2004 election.

Washingtonpost.com a famous web site in America arrange a competition to nominate Political Blog readers to choose their most favorable web log in each of the 10 categories. The nominating period ran from July 26 through Sept 3, 2004, and the voting period was from Sept 27 to October 15. The survey result was announced in the last week of October. After that readers were made to vote for their favorite party for each category among the top five nominees. The Blog readers choose National Review Online’s “The Corner” to be the winner in the “Best Rant”, “Best Democratic Party Coverage”, “Best Republican Party Coverage” and “Best Inside the Beltway” categories. “Kerry Spot” is another Blog of National Review Online Blog site won the “Best Campaign Dirt Category”. Daily Kos won for “Honorable Mention”, where as Instapundit.com won for “Most Likely to Last beyond Election Day”.

This survey showed that Blogs influenced this Presidential election with their appearance in the different blogging sites.



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