by WonkoSteve

This morning our servers are overheating with a barrage of negative McCain posts, and we are receiving many mails about it, some claiming that we are favoring Romney.

McCain supporters out there, please keep in mind the following:

1. Wonkosphere doesn’t favor any candidate.
2. All our posts are selected automatically, based on the same algorithms we’ve been running since August.  We do not select any posts by hand.
3. Buzz posts are selected to best reflect the current content of all posts ending at the time of the last update.  The buzz is what it is, and today it’s heavily negative on McCain.
4. The posts on a candidate’s page are those that are a combination of the most recent and where the candidate’s name is most influential (most structures the text) and attack posts are likely to meet those conditions.   We can only display so many posts, and when the traffic is heavy like it is today, it is possible that you won’t find a single positive post about a given candidate.
5. We don’t make any guarantee that the posts are favorable to the candidate or are by a candidate’s bloggers.  Usually they’re not; see Clinton’s page for another example.
6. Heavy negative traffic on McCain, especially also involving Romney, is not surprising given current reports that Romney is going heavily negative on McCain.
7. The solution to this is for McCain bloggers to return fire en masse.

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