Glad you agree about NC. I and many others think Dole can be beat in 2008 if we can find a credible well financed opponent. Easley could win but seems to not be interested. It make more sense for either Treasurer Moore or Lt. Gov. Perdue to drop the governor's race and run for Senate instead. Or the Att. General Roy Cooper. Right there I have mentioned 4 Democrats that have won statewide office and could beat her. There are others as well.

I'd love for Easley to run.. not so much because I agree with him on everything but he is one brutal no holds barred democrat who would help the "soft" image of dems nationally

Heads up to Mr Stoller: The second link to BlueNC is broken.  You've put in "http://www.bluenc.comc".  Obviously the last 'c' shouldn't be there.

Love the blog, I try to check it at least once a day.

Thanks for coming down, Matt, and for sharing your insight.

Great to meet you -- and my local blogosphere colleagues that I had not yet met -- in person. :)

There are a lot of great people down here doing excellent work covering Tar Heel issues, certainly as well and oftentimes better than the local MSM. Jerry Meek did a great job assembling folks to discuss how blogs can fit in the political dogfight going forward.

While I mostly blog about my pet issue (LGBT rights) at a national level -- including my home state -- it's good to get together with the bloggers who cover a range of state issues. Now we have to work to see how we can best assist each other in furthering a coordinated progressive agenda.

Pam Spaulding
= Pam's House Blend =

It was good to meet you Matt and to hear from you in person and, to meet a lot of other bloggers face to face for the first time.  The medium is becoming so effective, for us anyway, that face time is becoming less essential.

Nice to see you, Matt.  Enjoyed your comments, and thanks for letting me horn in on the meeting.

Blogwhoring alert: check out The Stinging Nettle.  

We North Carolinians are not horders, but instead are eager to share with our neighbor. Thus spread the blogosphere in NC. Of course it helps that our leaders are also well-versed in the new technology and paradigms.

Come back again!

-Dave

The first one is busted 'caus the .com has a c on the end of it.

Only one of the links had a significant investment in coding, and it was just me but I loathed the design.

Somehow the community has got to get much better code, templates, and tools out there, this was pathetic.

Maybe Howard Dean could help--surely he gets it.  I've often though the party needed mobile code teams to swoop in and help where needed.  It's a dream job if you like travel.

[shakes head] Lord I'm sick of those lame blogger templates.  I have no idea how Drupal is doing.  I suppose this will get better over time, but the blogging code base for the party is terrible.  Surely we could package some stuff for distribution.

I don't know about you but I had a great time solving the world's problems. :)

Thank you so much for coming down our way!!! I enjoyed the event, but particularly your insights.

As a vlogger, I feel like the bastard child of a bastard child so, instead of arguing the point I tried to make with you yesterday afternoon, I will simply shamelessly promote one of WNCNN's most interesting clips:

Last fall, only weeks before the election, our local ABC affiliate spent two minutes of priceless airtime at the top of their evening news, telling viewers that we have no impact. They didn't seem to notice that they gave our candidate way more coverage than the appalling incumbent we were trying to influence people to vote against!

Opponents of our now-former congressman had never gotten such positive television in 16 years of his malignant incumbancy. But, not to worry, he's long gone, so we're taking on the appalling congressman next door, Patrick McHenry.