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	<title>Comments on: NRSC Communications Director Brian Walsh Attacks RedState for Reporting Facts.</title>
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		<title>By: caconservagirl</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/30/nrsc-communications-director-brian-walsh-attacks-redstate-for-reporting-facts/#comment-3104</link>
		<dc:creator>caconservagirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I haven&#039;t made up my mind in the race as a republican and a resident of Califorina. But I will tell you this, I won&#039;t vote for Carly Fiorina!

As a Young Republican, I hear alot of stigma about the party being that of the &quot;old/middle aged white guy,&quot; and frankly I am tired of it. Califorina is a diverse state and it is about time the party had more diverse candidates. Kudos to Al Ramirez for running and even being able to hold an event at the NRSC. I have heard him speak a few times, and I would like to know more about him before I make up my mind going into the primary.

What upsets me more, is that there is a logical explanation for this. I found it, as have others.Twitter is listing Fiorina, Ramirez, and Harman (amongst others) on it&#039;s 20 suggested list. If you do not deslect those 20 random people they suggest then Twitter automatially adds them to your following feed. They are not porn or spambots or anything - they are just new users that don&#039;t know any better! 

However, some of the followers of these 3 candidates are legit. Even if just 10% are legit, that is still impressive for such a short amount of time. 

This isn&#039;t some grand conspiracy, and I didn&#039;t say that the NRSC has no interest in this race.  Boxer is weak, so they should take interest in what is going on in California! I just believe the NRSC has better things to do than come up with some grand scheme to ask one candidate to run, throw an event for another in the same race, then spam both candidates accounts with random Twitter followers then come out and deny the entire thing. It just seems too absurd!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t made up my mind in the race as a republican and a resident of Califorina. But I will tell you this, I won&#8217;t vote for Carly Fiorina!</p>
<p>As a Young Republican, I hear alot of stigma about the party being that of the &#8220;old/middle aged white guy,&#8221; and frankly I am tired of it. Califorina is a diverse state and it is about time the party had more diverse candidates. Kudos to Al Ramirez for running and even being able to hold an event at the NRSC. I have heard him speak a few times, and I would like to know more about him before I make up my mind going into the primary.</p>
<p>What upsets me more, is that there is a logical explanation for this. I found it, as have others.Twitter is listing Fiorina, Ramirez, and Harman (amongst others) on it&#8217;s 20 suggested list. If you do not deslect those 20 random people they suggest then Twitter automatially adds them to your following feed. They are not porn or spambots or anything &#8211; they are just new users that don&#8217;t know any better! </p>
<p>However, some of the followers of these 3 candidates are legit. Even if just 10% are legit, that is still impressive for such a short amount of time. </p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t some grand conspiracy, and I didn&#8217;t say that the NRSC has no interest in this race.  Boxer is weak, so they should take interest in what is going on in California! I just believe the NRSC has better things to do than come up with some grand scheme to ask one candidate to run, throw an event for another in the same race, then spam both candidates accounts with random Twitter followers then come out and deny the entire thing. It just seems too absurd!</p>
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		<title>By: civil_truth</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/30/nrsc-communications-director-brian-walsh-attacks-redstate-for-reporting-facts/#comment-3103</link>
		<dc:creator>civil_truth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;How can Gavin Newsom be in a two-person race with a person who isn&#039;t even a candidate&lt;/em&gt;?

And a follow-up question.

&lt;em&gt;How is that Gavin Newcom &lt;strong&gt;dropped out&lt;/strong&gt; of the running for governor when he was the only declared candidate in the race?&lt;/em&gt;

And those questions with some good-faith effort and you find you won&#039;t have a leg to stand on in this thread.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>How can Gavin Newsom be in a two-person race with a person who isn&#8217;t even a candidate</em>?</p>
<p>And a follow-up question.</p>
<p><em>How is that Gavin Newcom <strong>dropped out</strong> of the running for governor when he was the only declared candidate in the race?</em></p>
<p>And those questions with some good-faith effort and you find you won&#8217;t have a leg to stand on in this thread.</p>
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		<title>By: Neil Stevens</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neil Stevens</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Makes me think you have a vested interest in shilling for Fiorina or something.

Since the idea that the NRSC has no interest in this race is laughably wrong.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Makes me think you have a vested interest in shilling for Fiorina or something.</p>
<p>Since the idea that the NRSC has no interest in this race is laughably wrong.</p>
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		<title>By: caconservagirl</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/30/nrsc-communications-director-brian-walsh-attacks-redstate-for-reporting-facts/#comment-3101</link>
		<dc:creator>caconservagirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Did anyone here notice that the same thing is happening to Tom Harman? He went from having just a few hundred followers to over 16K in the same amount of time. The NRSC doesn&#039;t have a vested interest in this race at all. Most of the follwers are the same as Fiorina and Ramirez.

Is it a conspiracy now? Is it really a scandal? Think not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did anyone here notice that the same thing is happening to Tom Harman? He went from having just a few hundred followers to over 16K in the same amount of time. The NRSC doesn&#8217;t have a vested interest in this race at all. Most of the follwers are the same as Fiorina and Ramirez.</p>
<p>Is it a conspiracy now? Is it really a scandal? Think not.</p>
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		<title>By: Neil Stevens</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neil Stevens</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you can&#039;t be bothered to know who the players are, then none of the above groups are really going to care about your opinion.

Being an informed critic has so much more weight than being an ignorant one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you can&#8217;t be bothered to know who the players are, then none of the above groups are really going to care about your opinion.</p>
<p>Being an informed critic has so much more weight than being an ignorant one.</p>
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		<title>By: Neil Stevens</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/30/nrsc-communications-director-brian-walsh-attacks-redstate-for-reporting-facts/#comment-3099</link>
		<dc:creator>Neil Stevens</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you don&#039;t care about the porn/spam twitter follower scandal, why reply to this post to begin with?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you don&#8217;t care about the porn/spam twitter follower scandal, why reply to this post to begin with?</p>
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		<title>By: caconservagirl</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/30/nrsc-communications-director-brian-walsh-attacks-redstate-for-reporting-facts/#comment-3098</link>
		<dc:creator>caconservagirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How can Chuck be in a two person race with a person who isn&#039;t even a candidate? Fiorina isn&#039;t a declared candidate and hasn&#039;t filed her FEC paperwork. Therefore, she isn&#039;t a candidate. Ramirez is.

Yes, I have read the polls. One Rasmussen poll a few weeks ago had Chuck at 21%, Carly at 20% and 59% undecided. Frankly, I am banking on the 59% undecided.

And honestly, who really cares about Twitter? Is popularity on Twitter going to win you an election? I think not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How can Chuck be in a two person race with a person who isn&#8217;t even a candidate? Fiorina isn&#8217;t a declared candidate and hasn&#8217;t filed her FEC paperwork. Therefore, she isn&#8217;t a candidate. Ramirez is.</p>
<p>Yes, I have read the polls. One Rasmussen poll a few weeks ago had Chuck at 21%, Carly at 20% and 59% undecided. Frankly, I am banking on the 59% undecided.</p>
<p>And honestly, who really cares about Twitter? Is popularity on Twitter going to win you an election? I think not.</p>
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		<title>By: eburke</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/30/nrsc-communications-director-brian-walsh-attacks-redstate-for-reporting-facts/#comment-3097</link>
		<dc:creator>eburke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: eburke</title>
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		<dc:creator>eburke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: eburke</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/30/nrsc-communications-director-brian-walsh-attacks-redstate-for-reporting-facts/#comment-3095</link>
		<dc:creator>eburke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Games will NEVER work on the RIGHT side of the divide because WE deal in the FACTS not the emotions that the left deals in&quot;

Make sure you touch &#039;em all, Jaded.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Games will NEVER work on the RIGHT side of the divide because WE deal in the FACTS not the emotions that the left deals in&#8221;</p>
<p>Make sure you touch &#8216;em all, Jaded.</p>
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		<title>By: JadedByPolitics</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/30/nrsc-communications-director-brian-walsh-attacks-redstate-for-reporting-facts/#comment-3094</link>
		<dc:creator>JadedByPolitics</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...</description>
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		<title>By: Aaron Gardner</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/30/nrsc-communications-director-brian-walsh-attacks-redstate-for-reporting-facts/#comment-3093</link>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Gardner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What I am saying is that it would seem to be a bit suspicious that 8000+ now, would all follow &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;strong&gt;  Carly and Al.  As you just stated in your last post the two were on separate lists of recommendation.  

So it is your belief that 8000+ random people signed up for twitter and chose to follow Carly and then refreshed their browser until Al showed up so they could then follow him as well.

Totally random. 

All of this despite the fact that some of us are on actual group lists that contain tens of thousands of tweeters, and still haven&#039;t reached the followership that Carly and Al managed to garner, randomly, in a matter of 48 hours.


If that is the case I have a deal for you....you see, I won the South African Lottery and just need a bank account to cash the check.  15 billion is how much I won, if you give me your bank account number I will cash the check through your bank and give you 10%....deal?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What I am saying is that it would seem to be a bit suspicious that 8000+ now, would all follow <strong>both</strong><strong>  Carly and Al.  As you just stated in your last post the two were on separate lists of recommendation.  </p>
<p>So it is your belief that 8000+ random people signed up for twitter and chose to follow Carly and then refreshed their browser until Al showed up so they could then follow him as well.</p>
<p>Totally random. </p>
<p>All of this despite the fact that some of us are on actual group lists that contain tens of thousands of tweeters, and still haven&#8217;t reached the followership that Carly and Al managed to garner, randomly, in a matter of 48 hours.</p>
<p>If that is the case I have a deal for you&#8230;.you see, I won the South African Lottery and just need a bank account to cash the check.  15 billion is how much I won, if you give me your bank account number I will cash the check through your bank and give you 10%&#8230;.deal?</strong></p>
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		<title>By: harlan</title>
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		<dc:creator>harlan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t give a damn which letters you use.

obama would not currently be dismantling the United States of America if in the last twenty years, elected republican politicians had acted like the principled conservatives that they&#039;re supposed to be.

Power corrupts...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t give a damn which letters you use.</p>
<p>obama would not currently be dismantling the United States of America if in the last twenty years, elected republican politicians had acted like the principled conservatives that they&#8217;re supposed to be.</p>
<p>Power corrupts&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: becolt</title>
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		<dc:creator>becolt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...until this year. Now I see yet another argument for making candidates stand on their records, bios, and principles to get elected without ANY caucuses or large groups like the NRSC. I say lose the party and find stand alone human beings we can choose to believe will or will not represent us. 
hmm, close to what Hoffman has done.

Groups like this are useful for one thing as far as I can tell, as an example: The Cong. Prog. Caucus. We know that if the politician is part of this group, they are either full members or ideological brethren of socialist organizations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;until this year. Now I see yet another argument for making candidates stand on their records, bios, and principles to get elected without ANY caucuses or large groups like the NRSC. I say lose the party and find stand alone human beings we can choose to believe will or will not represent us.<br />
hmm, close to what Hoffman has done.</p>
<p>Groups like this are useful for one thing as far as I can tell, as an example: The Cong. Prog. Caucus. We know that if the politician is part of this group, they are either full members or ideological brethren of socialist organizations.</p>
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		<title>By: JadedByPolitics</title>
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		<dc:creator>JadedByPolitics</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They had better get to work for 2010 and stop playing like children around the internet.  They obviously are paying some extremely unintelligent people and are WASTING money.  I would think they would find it in their best interest to 1) hire bloggers and 2) have those bloggers give the straight and honest truth.

Games will NEVER work on the RIGHT side of the divide because WE deal in the FACTS not the emotions that the left deals in.  Chuck DeVore has made a name for himself by being active &amp; honest on the internet and the NRSC could do themselves a big favor by doing the same.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They had better get to work for 2010 and stop playing like children around the internet.  They obviously are paying some extremely unintelligent people and are WASTING money.  I would think they would find it in their best interest to 1) hire bloggers and 2) have those bloggers give the straight and honest truth.</p>
<p>Games will NEVER work on the RIGHT side of the divide because WE deal in the FACTS not the emotions that the left deals in.  Chuck DeVore has made a name for himself by being active &amp; honest on the internet and the NRSC could do themselves a big favor by doing the same.</p>
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		<title>By: Darin_H</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/30/nrsc-communications-director-brian-walsh-attacks-redstate-for-reporting-facts/#comment-3089</link>
		<dc:creator>Darin_H</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the NRSC clearly has a case of the stupids.</description>
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		<title>By: NightTwister</title>
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		<dc:creator>NightTwister</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I misinterpreted what you wrote.  Ah well, all is good.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I misinterpreted what you wrote.  Ah well, all is good.</p>
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		<title>By: Neil Stevens</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2009/10/30/nrsc-communications-director-brian-walsh-attacks-redstate-for-reporting-facts/#comment-3087</link>
		<dc:creator>Neil Stevens</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Follow the lines.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Follow the lines.</p>
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		<title>By: NightTwister</title>
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		<dc:creator>NightTwister</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>:-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <img src='http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Neil Stevens</title>
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		<dc:creator>Neil Stevens</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not likely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not likely.</p>
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