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{{Infobox website
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| url = {{URL|www.raisingkaine.com}} (defunct)
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| type = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]/[[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]]/[[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]] blog
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| author = [[Lowell Feld]] and
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'''Raising Kaine'''
RK was a popular example of a [[collaborative blog]], offering comment and diary posting privileges to its visitors.
At its peak, RK had an average monthly traffic of about 80,
==History==
Raising Kaine was founded in 2005, and supported Tim Kaine in the [[Virginia gubernatorial election, 2005|gubernatorial election]] against [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Jerry Kilgore (politician)|Jerry Kilgore]]. Founder Lowell Feld has written that the blog was founded with the intent "to create a [[Daily Kos]] for Virginia."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Feld |first1=Lowell |authorlink=Lowell Feld |last2=Wilcox |first2=Nate |title=Netroots Rising: How a Citizen Army of Bloggers and Online Activists Is Changing American Politics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EMbCYOTzX4EC |accessdate=22 April 2013 |year=2008 |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group|Praeger Publishers]] |location=Westport, CT |isbn=0313346607 |oclc=182662601 |page=77}}</ref> The blog continued to publish content until the end of 2008. Its posts were subsequently archived, where they were accessible until 2011.
==Content==
Front page entries and diaries often took the form of a news story from an outside source interspersed with commentary from the author of the diary or post. Sometimes these stories contained a request for action from other members of the community, such as to get involved with a particular campaign, give money to a candidate or contact an elected official about an issue. Some front page entries were called "open threads," which were open platforms for comments on any issue. One of the most popular versions of these open threads were "live threads" of commentary on important events happening in real time, such as debates or elections.
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==Webb for Senate campaign==
{{see also|United States Senate election in Virginia, 2006}}
During the [[United States Senate elections, 2006|2006 US election cycle]], RK helped found the "Draft James Webb" movement,
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.raisingkaine.com Official website] (defunct)
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