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Hill, Yes! O., No! The Battle Isn't Over for Many Women Who Fought for Clinton

• On June 8, the evening after Clinton conceded the Democratic presidential contest to Barack Obama, Mantouvalos organized a conference call with some 40 bloggers, political activists and other hardened loyalists of the New York senator's, in what became "a jam session of very intense opinion" -- about the party, its leadership, its presumptive nominee, the media. Five hours later, Mantouvalos, age "north of 35," had built a new Web site, JustSayNoDeal.com, which has become a clearinghouse for the renegade forces that are now confounding Democratic Party officials and Obama campaign operatives.

Portrait of the candidate as a pile of words What’s the most frequent word on McCain’s blog? ‘Obama’, The Boston Globe, August 3, 2008

• Both of this year’s major party presidential candidates have made official campaign blogs a central part of their virtual headquarters. John McCain’s campaign hired former Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb as its deputy communications director and made the "McCain Report" into his one-man show. The Obama team has taken a more collaborative approach, allowing supporters to create their own blogs and then moving some of that content, together with snippets of news coverage and messages from campaign officials, to the official "ObamaBlog" front page.

YouTube video of Diane Mantouvalos on Cavuto re: Just say no deal

• "Republicans are definitely courting us." - Diane Mantouvalos

Just Say No Deal Answers Questions on Sirius Radio

“I ghost-wrote letters to the editor for the McCain campaign.”

• After today we are supposed to use our free moments at home to create a flow of fictional fan mail for McCain. "Your letters," says Phil Tuchman, "will be sent to our campaign offices in battle states. Ohio. Pennsylvania. Virginia. New Hampshire. There we'll place them in local newspapers."

Press coverage of formation of No Deal...

http://tinyurl.com/6e2wak

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/06/12/2008-06-12_hillary_clinton_fanatics_keep_fight_aliv-1.html

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/13/1138240.aspx#comments

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/13/a-clinton-backer-turns-to-mccain/

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/256106

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/McCain_mingles_with_Clinton_sup

PUMA=Republicans?

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Clintons for McCain was created on MAY 15, 2008 by the RNC

Republican bloggers on stop-obama.org