This will be a brief diary, but having seen this on a couple other lefty blogs I frequent, I'm curious about the prevalence of Republican candidate ads on the Daily Kos...
Taking a look at the top of the page I find an ad for Jim Gibbons, Republican challenger to Leonard Boswell in my home district of IA-03. And on both this site and other sites, I've seen a number of ads for Terry Branstad in the Iowa gubernatorial race. Why?
Why do Republicans see any value from advertising on the Daily Kos? And why does the Daily Kos sell ads to Republican candidates? And why are Iowa Republicans so prominently featured among these ads? I'm guessing there's some loophole I'm not aware of here and it's probably been touched upon multiple times in the past, but it's high time I solve this mystery once and for all.