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Posted on September 1st, 2008 by ecgwesley
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DeMint raises his national profile with staunch conservative issues
Senator courts Republican activists across the county
Log on to U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint’s Web site for his 2010 re-election campaign, and you won’t see much about South Carolina.
DeMint is “Your Conservative Voice in the Senate,” a lawmaker who with your help “can change the culture of corruption in Washington.”
A snazzy sequence of rolling promos exclaims “Drill Now!” — in green letters, no less — and invites you, under a photo of a pulled-pork sandwich, to ”See How Congress Is Wasting Your Money!”…
…Conservative talk radio hosts helped catapult DeMint to national fame during last summer’s Senate immigration debate. Now, he is aggressively using the Internet to blog and post videos of himself speaking on an array of social-networking and conservative Web sites.
- James Rosen, McClatchy, 6/29/08
DeMint taps into power of Web
U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is using the Internet more than ever — perhaps more than any other Senator — to mobilize voters across the country behind some of his biggest issues, such as eliminating earmarks and strengthening the border.
He knows his ability to twist arms under the Capitol dome is often limited, but if he can craft a suitable message and spread it all over the Web, then eventually bloggers, talk radio hosts and the mainstream media will get the word out in a way DeMint never could before.
- Robert Behre, Charleston Post and Courier, 3/23/08
Sen. DeMint launches Website on border fence bill
Sen. Jim DeMint announced Monday the release of a new grassroots Web site for the “Complete the Fence Act” called www.completethefencenow.com.
The Web site features a two-minute video about the need for the border fence titled “700 Miles of Necessity” and has a list of border fence facts and links for visitors interested in blogging, writing a letter to the editor or telling friends and family about the bill.
- AP, 3/17/08
DeMint, Hensarling launch ‘energy freedom’ countdown Web site
As House Republicans continue to focus on energy policy, Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas launched a new Web site Tuesday that highlights October 1 as the day the congressional ban on offshore oil drilling will end unless Congress takes some action to continue the ban.
The site prominently features a YouTube video clip of DeMint and Hensarling discussing energy policy and encouraging the public to contact their representatives in Congress about lifting ban on offshore oil drilling and oil shale recovery. The site also contains a clock-like widget counting down the time until October 1. Visitors to the site can copy the HTML code for the widget so that they can embed the countdown clock on their own blogs or Web sites. Visitors can also sign an online petition on the site and read a blog about energy policy.
- CNN, 8/13/08
