Win Points for McCain!
Rewards Program for Online Commenters
By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 7, 2008; Page C01
Spread John McCain's official talking points around the Web -- and you could win valuable prizes!
On McCain's Web site, visitors are invited to "Spread the Word" about the presumptive Republican nominee by sending campaign-supplied comments to blogs and Web sites under the visitor's screen name. The site offers sample comments ("John McCain has a comprehensive economic plan . . .") and a list of dozens of suggested destinations, conveniently broken down into "conservative," "liberal," "moderate" and "other" categories. Just cut and paste.
People who sign up for McCain's program receive reward points each time they place a favorable comment on one of the listed Web sites (subject to verification by McCain's webmasters). The points can be traded for prizes, such as books autographed by McCain, preferred seating at campaign events, even a ride with the candidate on his bus, known as the Straight Talk Express, according to campaign spokesman Brian Rogers.
I went to Granpa's site and found this page about the agit-prop campaign. The campaign breaks down blogs into 4 categories, liberal, moderate, conservative and other. These categories are a bit confused because Instapundit and Pajamas Media are regarded as "other" instead of conservative.
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