{"id":249,"date":"2004-02-18T10:26:59","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T10:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=249"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:41:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:41:27","slug":"interesting-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/jmatt.net\/blog\/article.php?story=20040213222538885\" Target=\"Offsite\">mentioned<\/a> checking out Glenn Reynolds&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/\" Target=\"Offsite\">InstaPundit.Com<\/a>, after seeing it hyped in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.02\/start.html?pg=10\" Target=\"Offsite\"><i>Wired<\/i> article<\/a>.  One thing I didn&#8217;t mention was my surprise at seeing an ad on InstaPundit for Ben Chandler&#8217;s campaign for the Kentucky  6th District Congressional seat.  I really didn&#8217;t see why blog readers around the net would be interested in our little congressional race (and I especially didn&#8217;t think InstaPundit&#8217;s right-wing lunatics would be interested in Ben Chandler).  Now, another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/politics\/0,1283,62325,00.html\/wn_ascii\" Target=\"Offsite\"><i>Wired<\/i> article<\/a> shows how wrong I was.  Chandler&#8217;s campaign manager, Mark Nickolas, was either brilliant or lucky (or both).  The article doesn&#8217;t mention InstaPundit, but at least some of the blogs Chandler advertised on provided a very healthy return of funds.  It&#8217;s interesting. I&#8217;m not sure whether it&#8217;s indicative of a significant new trend, or whether this was a fluke. I&#8217;m just glad Chandler won (the victory was appropriately toasted in the hunt field today).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I mentioned checking out Glenn Reynolds&#8217; InstaPundit.Com, after seeing it hyped in a Wired article. One thing I didn&#8217;t mention was my surprise at seeing an ad on InstaPundit for Ben Chandler&#8217;s campaign for the Kentucky 6th District Congressional seat. I really didn&#8217;t see why blog readers around the net would&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=249\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting Coincidence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-41","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}