by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
The netroots and geek culture may not be in perfect alignment, but there’s definitely a good bit of overlap, at least judging by the ratio of American Idol-blogging to BSG-blogging. Thus, readers may be interested to know that Elizabeth Edwards is, in fact, a big dork (and I use that as a term of endearment … think of it as a empowerment-through-“reclaiming”) and even says she participated in an old USENET newsgroup that sounds suspiciously like alt.usage.english, though Google Groups turns up no results. That’s old school.
Now if we can just get Ms Edwards to start playing World of Warcraft, she’ll be able to tap into a constituency larger than the number of farmers in the country*.
* Yes, those farmers are important; they are often the primary export in rural America. But hey, the hourly wage in Everquest is below the minimum wage, so perhaps there is an angle for the Edwards campaign after all.