Raising Kaine
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Raising Kaine, also known as "RK", was the leading progressive state political blog in Virginia. It functioned as a group blog and community forum for Virginia netroots activists, whose efforts are primarily directed toward helping to elect Democrats and progressives in Virginia and nationally.
RK was a popular example of a collaborative blog, offering comment and diary posting privileges to its visitors. RK was founded by Lowell Feld and Eric Grim in January 2005 with one of the main goals being to help "raise" Democratic Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine to the governor's mansion. In addition, the blog aimed to help elect Democrats up and down the ballot throughout Virginia, while promoting progressive causes and values.
RK had an average monthly traffic of about 80,000-100,000 visits. As with many leading state and local blogs, RK runs on the SoapBlox software.
Content
Lowell Feld, Eric Grim, and a small group of selected users posted entries directly to the front page; other users could post "diaries," the titles of which appear on the front page in reverse chronological order, with special attention and longer display time for those diaries highly recommended by other users. The other major source of content was the myriad comments posted in response to front page entries and diaries. Comments for popular or controversial diaries or front page threads could run into the thousands.
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 are an open platform 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.
Contributors
Prominent contributors
Numerous political figures used RK to publish frequent or occasional content, including consultants, candidates, and members of the Virginia General Assembly. Prominent posters include:
Contributing Editors
Webb for Senate campaignDuring the 2006 U.S. election cycle, RK helped found the "Draft James Webb" movement, which ultimately helped persuade James Webb to run for U.S. Senate against George Allen. Throughout the campaign, RK was a major proponent of Jim Webb's nomination and election. In July 2006, Lowell Feld and Josh Chernila were hired by the Webb campaign as netroots and volunteer coordinator, respectively. External links |