Brent E. Blaschke, the project director, said the idea was to reach "swing voters," whom he described as the silent majority of Muslims.
This leads me to ask, what other projects did the State Department use tax money for swinging the voters?
If it swings religions, did the State Dept also swing political parties, skin colors, or french fry eaters?
The discussion tacked back and forth for four days, one of many such conversations prompted by scores of postings the State Department has made on about 70 Web sites since it put its two Arab-American Web monitors to work last November.
The postings, are an effort to take a more casual, varied approach to improving America’s image in the Muslim world.
Brent E. Blaschke, the project director, said the idea was to reach "swing voters," whom he described as the silent majority of Muslims who might sympathize with Al Qaeda yet be open to information about United States government policy and American values.
Some analysts question whether the blog team will survive beyond the tenure of Karen P. Hughes, the confidante of President Bush who runs public diplomacy.
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http://www.nytimes.com/...
This leads me to ask, what other projects did the State Department use tax money for swinging the voters?
Did the State Department try to swing Quakers or Catholics, Libertarians or Southern Blue Dog Democrats?