I need your help - questions about political blogs

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My thanks to lemonlye for allowing me to post this here.

I'm currently writing an essay about political blogs for my post-graduate course on political propaganda and I would really appreciate your help. I have few questions which I would love to get your answers to. This would be most beneficial for my research for there hasn't been written much yet about blogging on an academic level.

So here are the questions:

1. Basic information: age, location, education, occupation.

2. Do you read any political blogs and if you do, what blogs do you mostly read?

3. Do you yourself write political posts in your blog and/or have a blog mostly dedicated to politics?

4. Do you feel that political bloggers are an important part of how democracy works today or will they become an important part?

5. Compared to other online resources, such as news sites, are political blogs a reliable source of information?

6. Do you feel that political bloggers have similar or more power to persuade people than for instance, political campaign advertisements?

7. Do you think that political blogs are a form of propaganda?

You can either comment with your answers or e-mail them to me to ingathora at gmail dot com. Any questions, suggestions etc. are also welcome.