Quite awhile ago, I began a "blog" called The Gore Years. The premise was simple. It was an alternative history that described how this world might have turned out if Gore had won the election. It wasn't a Gore-worship-site, it was more of a what if Bush-had-not-won-site. I started it after being really angry about how, at work, the exit polls all showed Kerry winning, and when I got home, the real polls seemed to show Dubya's war strategy winning another round with American voters. I've never been one for conspiracy theories, but this did raise my hairs a bit, and all I could do was start this site ...
... but. It was no Daily Kos. It got great hits when I got silly, such as with this post:
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But posts like this?
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even though they are on the front tab? Not so good. Don't get serious with the American people. And, especially, don't get honest.
So posts like that did nowhere near as well as stuff like silly, Onion-like posts like this:
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There are a few classics, such as this:
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Which to me is my best late night efforts.
There are a lot more. Others say that this is the best:
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But I already said that.
I tried to set up a poll but apparently my Poll thing is disabled. Maybe I need to pay money to enable it, but I think I can tell my friends that if the numbers on my site go up as the result of this poll, the site will be resurrected. And if not, it's dead.
Simple enough.