The Moderate Republican

Hi Dennis,

I was trying to find a contact for the moderator or creator of this blog site. Unable to do so, I decided to contact you just in case you are the person I am looking for. If you're not, I am very sorry, please do not read on.

My name is Lauren Baldasari. I am a research associate working with Dr.
Robert Rosenwein who is on the faculty of the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at Lehigh University. We are conducting interviews with people
like yourself who have created politically oriented blogs. We would very
much like to know your thoughts and feelings about three things. First, we
are particularly interested in the reasons you decided to create your blog.
Second, we would like to hear about your experiences in running the site.
Third, we would like to know your perceptions of the impact the site has had
on other sites, the political campaign and political life in general. The
interview of course, would be to your convenience. The total amount of time
(not necessarily in a single session) would amount to about one half-hour to
an hour, depending on your schedule.

Our intent is to publish the results of this research in a peer-reviewed
journal. Ethically, we are bound to keep these interviews anonymous in the
reporting if you so desire and we would not keep any record of these
interviews after we had analyzed them. If you are interested, we would send
you a draft of the paper before it is submitted for publication.

We apologize in advance for the intrusion on your valuable time. However,
whatever information you can give us would be greatly appreciated. We look
forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely yours,

Lauren Baldasari
LLB2@lehigh.edu