The highly controversial Rep. Cynthia McKinney has now been forced into a runoff and her opponent Hank Johnson has been making his case via blogging on the solid website Winds of Change.
And he is somewhat prolific in his posts.
He wrote THIS POST introducing himself.
Then THIS POST making his case and explaining why supporting him would be good for politics.
Then he did THIS POST (particuarly interesting) where he answered questions from Winds of Change readers.
These are fascinating posts — worth the attention of readers of all persuasions — because they show a candidate taking full advantage of Internet technology to directly spread his word and also (not a small matter) a candidate who’s offering voters a different style of representation.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.