In answer to your question, the N&O reporter contacted me for the story. Real World Republicans received some attention in online national news thanks to my boss, David All, the co-founder of the site and a Republican web 2.0 consultant. I can’t claim any credit. So the story of the blog spread from there–and now there’s even a mention of the site in some online newspaper in Tasmania.

As an interesting aside, the biggest spike in traffic came from the N&O story (thank you Google Analytics for that data). I guess it proves what we already know: North Carolinians just do something extra and better. And I say this as a now-official North Carolinian (and reformed Yankee), having paid my state taxes on April 15–the true test of citizenship!