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Political Strategists to Launch Web Site
Jul 11 7:42 PM US/Eastern

By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON

A bipartisan group of prominent political strategists on Tuesday announced
an Internet information venture designed to interact with America's opinion
leaders and serve as an antidote to the right-left clash that typifies
political discourse on the Web.

The site, called Hotsoup.com, will debut in October and will be edited by
Ron Fournier, former chief political writer for The Associated Press.

Hotsoup is the brainchild of some of the best-known practitioners of
partisan politics in Washington, including Matthew Dowd, chief strategist
for the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004, and Joe Lockhart, former White House
press secretary under President Clinton and a senior adviser to Democratic
Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.

Despite their political backgrounds and distinct party affiliations, Hotsoup
founders said the site will provide a nonpartisan forum not just for
politics, but for topics ranging from science to popular culture, from
business to current affairs.

"We all share the belief that partisanship is largely driven by a debate
that lacks information and lacks context, and we think this community can
provide both of those things," Lockhart said.

The effort is ambitious and risky, using the Internet to create an online
social network similar to the popular teenage Web retreat MySpace.com.
Hotsoup's target audience will be opinion leaders around the country who use
the Internet to help make up their minds.

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