Bipartisan Political Strategists to Launch Social Networking Site

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 12, 2006 - 12:49pm.

Washington - A bipartisan group of political strategists have teamed to develop a social networking site for politically active Americans, set to launch shortly before the mid-term Congressional elections in November. HotSoup.com's founders include former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart, and Matthew Dowd, chief strategist for the 2004 Bush presidential campaign. Former Associated Press senior political writer Ron Fournier will serve as editor-in-chief of the site, which will invite influential political commentators to participate, along with what HotSoup estimates as America's 30 million "opinion drivers" who shape opinion and influence others. "HotSoup.com will be the place policy makers and political elites get to make their case to a public who increasingly feels shut out of the entire process," said Lockhart. "But to be heard, they'll have to check their partisan spin at the door and address the issues the HotSoup.com community decides are important. The HotSoup.com community will demand constructive debate and real solutions to real problems, not the contrived debates and fact-challenged banter that paralyzes our political and policy discourse."

http://hotsoup.com/press/press.doc
http://tinyurl.com/kjnxr (Reuters)
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