Hillary Using Drudge
by Patrick Ruffini :: June 6th, 2007 9:26 pmIt’s obvious someone on Hillary’s campaign is leaking to Drudge. They did this during the Q1 deadline too.
I wonder how Markos feels about that?
Does anyone know what that link in the Drudge scoop that was disappeared was?
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Snooper says:
YES! I do!
The link that vanished was for the selection of either a $500 or a $1,000 breakfast. Must have been expensive eggs?
Got it covered over here:
http://stophernow.wordpress.com/2007/06/06/who-are-hillarys-secret-contributors/#comment-187
# June 6th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
[…] Likewise, HillaryHub has gotten a lot of pixels and ink. Ben Smith did an article for the Politico on it that quoted me. We know that Hillary’s campaign loves the Drudge Report, so it’s not altogether surprising to see them launch a Drudge clone. The overall concept of embargoing news so you can roadblock folks at your campaign website is one with huge upside for the campaigns. But is HillaryHub the most significant thing the Clinton campaign will do online this cycle? Not even close, at least according to the traffic numbers. Traffic to the main Hillary site dwarfs that to HillaryHub, except when it’s mentioned somewhere in the press, confirming my hunch that microsites are mostly good for one- or two-time earned media hits. With these press mentions, the Clinton campaign has probably gotten 90% of the mileage they’re going to get out of HillaryHub. […]