April 19, 2006

Sign The Media World Has Changed #425: Jerome's Way

It used to be, when a potential pres. candidate made his first _real_ trip to Iowa, his staff would make sure he dialed up Mike Glover, the state's AP ace, or David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register, in advance.

Today -- an Iowa Dem blogger got the call from ex-VA Gov. Mark Warner, who is due in Des Moines tomorrow.

We're sure Glover and Yepsen and others will get plenty of time with Warner, and we'll go out on a limb to say that they remain, at this juncture, more influential.

As he prepares to run in 2008, Warner, assisted by web strategist Jerome Armstrong, wants to harness the energy of the pragmatic wing of the liberal blogosphere. But as Warner knows, it ain't so much how many bloggers he charms now -- and he's charmed a bunch, including Markos Moulitsas -- it's what he says (and does) later on. [MARC AMBINDER]

Posted at 07:01 PM

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