Please note, in reaction to a coordinated astroturfing campaign taking place in the Colorado blogosphere, Rocky Mountain Right has updated its site policies for commenters and diarists. Please review our new rules on sockpuppets, spammers, and astroturfers which are in effect starting now.
Rocky Mountain Right's policy on sockpuppets, spammers, and astroturfers (AKA "The Cleve Doctrine")
While this site encourages advocacy of candidates, attempting to register multiple usernames to leave comment spam in favor of one will not be tolerated; especially if such efforts are occuring across multiple sites. Derailing unrelated conversations in an attempt to promote a token candidate will not be tolerated and comments to that effect will be deleted with no warning from this point on. Users with accounts newer than six months old will be terminated if they are found to be engaging in astroturf campaigning (taking advantage of online anonymity to give the false illusion of widespread support for a candidate) on this site. If you want to support your candidate, fine, if you want to engage in a coordinated effort across the blogosphere to create smoke and mirrors then you should start your own blog instead of piggy-backing on others.
Other site rules and policies can be found here. Please note that this policy only applies to those engaging in an coordinated effort directed by a campaign to create false impressions of grassroots support, not to independent supporters of Republican candidates.
The Rocky Mountain Alliance is making it's return. The reborn RMA consists of the following member as of today:
A Yahoo Pipes feed can be found in the right-hand sidebar of this page with the latest content from RMA members.
A ton of campaign sites have been added to the Rocky Mountain Right candidate directory since it's launch. New additions include Joshua Sharf (HD-6), Nick Kliebenstein (HD-33), Rep. Spencer Swalm (HD-37), Rep. David Balmer (HD-39), Katie Witt (SD-17), and Rob Lane (SD-35). Make sure to visit these sites and the others listed in the candidate directory to see some of the Republican talent pool.
If you know of a campaign site for a Republican state legislature candidate that should be added to the directory, email info@rockymountainright.com with your request.
U.S. Term Limits is running the follwing ad on behalf of Bob Schaffer for the next several weeks:
In order to help better track campaign videos, Rocky Mountain Right has established a YouTube channel that will allow users to browse a number of video messages.
Rocky Mountain Right on YouTube
Polls conducted on the Colorado Senate race so far have shown Bob Schaffer and Mark Udall within the margin of error of each other almost without exception.
To help track the 2008 Senate race, Rocky Mountain Right is launching the beta version of the Colorado Poll Tracker. The Colorado Poll Tracker is tracking all polls taken in the Colorado Senate Race and will soon be updated with numbers for McCain v. Obama matchups in Colorado.
Check back soon for more poll numbers.
Rocky Mountain Right is compiling a directory of Republican candidates in Colorado. To have your campaign listed, email info@rockymountainright.com with your campaign's URL.
In the first month of operation, Rocky Mountain Right is pleased to announce that it has signed up over 400 registered users and has even more readers. Rocky Mountain Right looks forward to a productive election year and the volume of users proves that the candidacies of Bob Schaffer, John McCain, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, and our talented candidates for state legislature, CD-5, and CD-6 are energizing conservative activists in Colorado.
Remember to check back daily at Rocky Mountain Right for your latest Colorado political news and to read the latest from Colorado's conservative grassroots.
CRANK LEADS POLL
With 133 ballots cast, Jeff Crank is the victor of the Rocky Mountain Right Fifth Congressional District Straw Poll. Crank took 70 votes, or 53 percent. Bentley Rayburn placed second with 58 votes and 44 percent, and Rep. Doug Lamborn placed third with 5 votes, or 3 percent. All are Republicans.Rocky Mountain Right Web site uses a registration system to tie votes to valid e-mail addresses and monitored the results to make sure no attempts to cast multiple votes were made.
The site also has a system in place to prevent automated registrations. All three congressional campaigns were notified of the straw poll and supporters of all candidates were invited to participate.
Rocky Mountain Right is a grassroots Web site for conservative activists in Colorado. Blog posts make up most of the site's content. Rocky Mountain Right also features a blog aggregator that displays the latest headlines from Colorado's conservative blogging community.
The original straw poll post can be found here: http://www.rockymountainright.com/?q=node/23
Rocky Mountain Right now allows users to apply categories and tags to their blog posts. When you write a blog post you can now select a category from a predefined list of broad terms or create your own category by entering a tag.
For general inquiries, tips, and blogroll requests; please email: info@rockymountainright.com
