One interesting - and to me, promising - development stemming from the recent election season is the continuing emergence of conservative bloggers in and around Seattle. There are more that I've come across since this recent entry at Rosenblog (warning: not all listed in this link are "conservative" or even political, but most are - you'll be able to tell by visiting their sites).

Here's another: a grad student named Patrick, whose Nov. 30 takedown of The Stranger's "Urban Archipelago" Blue City Isolationist Drivel really caught my eye. As did his link to official election stats from a New York City blogger, showing Bush actually made sizeable gains in and around the Big Apple compared to 2000. And the Staten Island numbers: Whoa! Damn near Bush Country now! But then I should have guessed, after my ex-liberal pal Martin from Staten Island weighed in.

The rise of 20- to 40-something, Blue City conservative-leaning political bloggers is an outlier. There's even greater penetration of conservative values (here's what that phrase means to me) in suburbs and ex-urbs among people in the same age cohort. Many don't even go to church, either. Shocking, I know.

The recent Washington gubernatorial election cliffhanger has brought a great deal of attention - and deservedly so - to the Puget Sound-based conservative blog Sound Politics. I'm proud to be a contributor there, but want to doff my hat to the incredibly energetic Stefan Sharkansky, who founded the site and has worked tirelessly, doing reporting, statistical analysis and commentary on the Gregoire-Rossi election. Overall, Shark's work on this story has rivaled, if not surpassed most of the regional MSM coverage of same.

Sound Politics is now one focal point for Seattle-area conservatives, not to mention readers and commenters from all over the country, who see that there are large fissures in the wall of Seattle's political monoculture. Expect to see those fissures grow in months and years to come.

Especially, if more guys like this Seattle Democrat for Bush keep blogging. His name is Doug Anderson, and he lives in Seattle's oh-so-progressive Mount Baker neighborhood (a wonderful place, BTW, I take my kids to the city park and playground there frequently). Here's how Doug described his mission, and himself (atop his blog) pre-election:

A life-long Scoop Jackson Democrat, I support President Bush and the way he is prosecuting the War on Terror. Does that make me a Republican? I don't think so. I'm a Seattle poet, writer and musician.

And here's part of what he wrote after the election:

I LOVE THE SOUND OF BEING CALLED A MORON IN THE MORNING. IT SOUNDS LIKE...SOUNDS LIKE...

VICTORY!

Doug says his very own Democrats for Bush blog is now closed, and so be it. I hope he comes back to the blogosphere, though. These are the voices of resistance from within the Soviet of Seattle. We LIKE it here, despite the goofball politics of the majority. And we're NOT leaving.

UPDATE: As I live and breathe, here's yet another. 24-year-old Gonzaga grad and former Gonzaga campus newspaper columnist Jason Hagglund, of suburban Seattle (Bothell) has an excellent blog I should have known about already: Write Wing Conspiracy. More about Jason here. Keep at it, young man.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at December 1, 2004 07:44 AM

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