Our first winner on American Blogger is adamterando, for his comment proposing to organize commenting on swing state newspapers.
Congradulations, Adam! You can post a diary expanding on your comment any time this week and I will promote it to the front page. Please check my user page & email me at least 1/2 day ahead of time to give me a heads up on when you're going to do it.
And for everyone else, the next contest repeats this weekend, with suggestions opening Friday afternoon (Pacific time) and voting opening on Saturday.
Please keep track of comments/ideas that would be worthy of pormoting in a front page diary next week--or even just kicking around a bit, because of where they might lead. The top prize is a frontpage diary slot, but the overall purpose is to expand the life of good ideas, and give them a second chance to reach more people, spark more connections, and make this a richer environment for all of us to hang out in.
Pick a swing state newspaper and post comments on stories
The idea is to monitor one swing state newspaper each week until the election. Readers will monitor presidential (or just general) political coverage and post comments in news stories, especially stories about John McCain or Obama. The goal is to counter much of the right-wing blather that infests newspaper sites. To maximize the effect, either the editors will pick the newspaper of choice for the week, or users will vote on the newspaper. If a particular swing state is particularly important for more than one week, we can continue monitoring the same newspaper, or pick another paper in the state. The action will help to dispel right-wing myths propagated by both the media and right-wing commentators that inhabit newspaper sites. It will help provide information for those voters that read newspapers but do not read blogs.
In addition, since I'm a geographer, I like that it helps expose people to news from different areas of the country that they wouldn't otherwise be exposed too.
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