Have a Laptop? You, Too, Can Sway New Hampshire Race - (bloggers and politics)

The blogs don’t matter so much for the front-runners, who get plenty of media attention already and have no trouble generating crowds. Neither New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton nor Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has sat down with Blue Hampshire.

But for the clutch of second-tier candidates, local blogs like Blue Hampshire offer a new chance to get attention.

“These are people who, if we can get them, they’ll go out and convince their friends to support [a candidate]. They have large circles of friends who listen to them,” says Matt Browner-Hamlin, the blog outreach staffer for Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, who hovers at about 2% in New Hampshire polls. “The payoff is particularly big because you have people who can convert readers into potential activists.”"*

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