Posts by: Eric
In terms of Plunderbund as a business, 2011 has been a big year. October marked the second anniversary of our decision to push the boundaries of political blogging in the state and take the site to new levels. In April we went live with our third major site re-design since 2005. We added several ad placements and began using a combination of Google ads and direct placements to fill out our ad inventory.
We’ve published more and better content than ever and broken more stories than any blog in Ohio has in a single year. Joseph and Modern are [...]
Full Story... →We recently brought you the story of the re-design of the Ohio license plate. We decided to have some fun with it and asked our fans on Facebook what they thought John Kasich’s vanity plate should be. While we haven’t done an exhaustive search, we’re pretty sure that post broke a record for comments. We got 164 at last count!
We also decided to design out own plates with custom background words and we asked our fans what their favorite Kasich quotes were. Again, we got a huge response!
Kasich is asking people to go to Full Story... →
The ORP has a pretty neat tool that allows anyone to put an “idea in action”. They call it “The Townhall” and they probably didn’t plan on the most popular idea being for them to slow down their train and stop attacking workers and heading more and more to the right.
I have been a proud member of the Republican party since 1972. I have faithfully voted Republican in every local and national election. I have even given money, even though in small amounts I STILL GAVE TO THE GOP. I have served 4 years in [...]
Full Story... →ModernEsquire scores the first national live TV appearance in Plunderbund history. Nice work man!
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Full Story... →PB is the place to be for live election night coverage. We’ll have a live chat, streaming video commentary, interviews, and more! The crew will be on-site in Columbus helping you get a flavor for election night. Go vote and come back here later!
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Full Story... →The strangest things tend to happen on or just before a big election day in Ohio. Shadowy out-of-state rightwing groups dump tons of money in our state. Ohio is a key battleground state, etc. We get all that.
What we don’t get is why a group out of Iowa cares what Ohio does in state referendum and Constitutional Amendment issues?
The Legacy Foundation, formed in 2008 by former Speaker of the Iowa House and gubernatorial candidate Christopher Rants, is sending out misleading, though innocuous looking mailers that appear to be simple reminders to vote tomorrow. The text clearly favors [...]
Full Story... →We’ve been hearing about this in comments and on our Facebook page. I know our readers are wanting to hear it, so I give you the Pat Boone Issue 2 Robocall:
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Not the most enthusiastic of robocalls, really. About what one would expect from a birther and recipient of a lifetime achievement award at CPAC.
I’m thinking Pat may be singing a different tune come tomorrow night:
Full Story... →Cincinnati Firefighter Paul Weber was on the truck that responded to the fire and helped save Zoey, the subject of a recent We Are Ohio ad. The political hacks over at Build a Better Ohio used that ad to mislead voters into thinking Zoey’s great-grandmother Marlene Quinn really supported Issue 2.
Paul has a simple message for TV stations: Pull the ad!
He also has a message for voters in Ohio: Vote No on Issue 2!
Full Story... →[Update 10/11/11 5:50pm] We’re getting word that NBC4 in Columbus has also pulled the ad!
[Update 10/11/11 5pm] Two more stations WSYX and WTTE in Columbus have also pulled the ads. Keep it up!
Earlier today, we broke the story of the Building a Better Ohio campaign misusing an ad run by We Are Ohio in an attempt to mislead voters. We have now confirmed that at least 2 television stations that were contracted to run the ads have pulled them:
WSAZ in Charleston Huntington, WV
WTAP in Parkersburg
More are sure to follow. Thanks to everyone who [...]
Full Story... →One of the biggest pieces of feedback we receive via email and on our Facebook page is “why is [insert offensive advertisement] running on your site?” The explanation we share with people individually we now have on our Advertise page:
Quick note on Google Ads: We run ads from the Google network when there are not direct placement ads available for a given banner ad spot. This allows us to still generate revenue while seeking qualified progressive advertisers. We often hear feedback from our readers that they don’t like an ad that Google places there. These are contextual [...]
Full Story... →So now that we’ve pretty firmly and completely established that the press conference yesterday was one big PR stunt to try to re-frame the debate and paint the unions as the ones who are inflexible and unwilling to negotiate, it’s time to have some fun with it.
As a reminder, here’s a picture from Kasich’s staged press conference complete with an empty table and name tents for the union leaders who “refused to show up”.
Announcing the latest PlunderContest:
Waiting for John Kasich
Here is how it works. First download a printable table tent slash invitation to the [...]
Full Story... →Budget Watch
