How did you find DU

[karlschneider]

I was thinking about this earlier, and I've wracked my brain but I just don't remember where I first heard about DU. (!) It has been a very long while, though. ;-) So it occurred to me that it might be interesting to do a poll. Like we don't have enough to do. :D
So here it is.

[Terwilliger]

1. I voted Other, but I meant "word of mouth"

I was thinking about something more specific, like "I knew this person, and they said to come here" Something to that effect.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Looking for * jokes

and found Top 10 Conservative Idiots. About week 3.

[jonoboy]

3. typed Democrat

into Google and the surfed to it..

was looking for sanity in America and found it.

[are_we_united_yet]

4. And I'm friggin hooked!

:)

[LightTheMatch]

5. Selection Day 2000

I saw the people with the "DemocraticUnderground.com" huge white banner on TV!! I thought, "hey, what the hell is that???"

COOL! :)

[Castilleja]

10. I saw the same thing!

and also saw on Smirking Chimp, and finally cruised on over.

[oasis]

6. March of 2002 James Carville on "Crossfire" said visit Mediawhores online.

After being entertained by their discussion board for several weeks I rode one of their links to this exceptional site.

[wyldwolf]

7. Turned right at Greenland...

[candy331]

13. Can't remember

how I found the site, but it has been a sanity saver for me. I am the only one of family even remotely interested in politics so I appreciate coming here it feels like I have found a friend.I recently left(1year) a religion I had been in for 20 odd years which forbid getting involved in politics /voting. As I mentioned before this will be my first time voting.

[wyldwolf]

14. Well, to be honest, a VERY well known DU'er recommended it to me...

[karlschneider]

27. Sweet.

:D

[NewJerseyDem]

8. Google search

I was actually doing a search for 2004 senate races and one of the results was DU.

[Spazito]

9. Buzzflash, from clicking on the Top Ten Idiot List

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[noiretextatique]

37. me too...buzzflash nt

[calimary]

40. Me three - buzzflash was my connective tissue.

I've been hooked ever since. You guys keep me sane. Even when you argue.

[starroute]

44. And me

Slow on the uptake as I am (or maybe I just surf too fast), I was reading the Top 10 Idiots for months through Buzzflash before I realized there was a whole lot more to this site.

Glad I finally noticed.

[Ohio Dem]

11. From www.politicalhumor.about.com

I was perusing http://www.politicalhumor.about.com/ and they had a link to the Top Ten Conservative Idiots. I've been hooked ever since.

[rallykid]

12. A link from

I found a link from ar15.com in the AK forums

[L.A.dweller]

35. did you vote for Gore in the last elections?

[WillyT]

15. I Think It Was A Link From A Salon Article...

I think...

Just damned glad I found it. I'd be in a rubber room by now if not!!!

:crazy:

[eleny]

16. A Yahoo group

It was either Diehard Dems or the national Draft Clark group.

First time I visited this board, it was like coming home.

[messiah]

17. I remember

that I did a search on google underground politics or something like it looking for progressive or GP message boards around 3 years ago and I got here. I remember a much more leftward thinking board back then but now it has moderated to the right........

[wildwww2]

18. Just a few days before 9-11 I found DU through Linkcrusader.com

Smirkingchimp.com went out on 9-11. So I go back to linkcrusader.com and next thing I know I`m at DU everyday.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[fla nocount]

19. Frank Stein's classic post "When will someone say it"

It was about the ludicrous idea that not one, but two 110 story buildings could fall within their own footprints, that four airliners could make u turns without suspicion and crash into landmarks while getting a bye from our military...etc. I just had to jump in. Whatever happened to Frank? He was one of my heroes.

[Wonk]

23. That was MoPaul's first account before he decided to use his own name.

http://www.mopaul.com/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=120&topic_id=2731

[fla nocount]

26. Thanks Wonk! MoPaul, you rule, you always have.

Frank's disapperance has gnawed like a toothache. I was afraid that he had grown weary of casting pearls before swine and had abandoned us.

[mediaman007]

20. Heard about it on

C-Span in the Spring of 2002.

[Forkboy]

21. Link from Bartcop-Sept 12th 2001

[Journeyman]

32. Linked from Bartcop. . .

back in March or April 2001.

[bobthedrummer]

22. I was banned @ SmirkingChimp for no given reason, I wandered here

as a refugee in August 2002 and have not been banned for any reason because of the simple and enforced rules here that allow for discussion of CT and other subjects not deemed politically correct elsewhere, that's just one of the reasons I support this great American political website.

[karlschneider]

29. Banned by Smirkingchimp? Wow. I still check in there daily....

DU is my internet "home", but SC has always seemed cool to me. I admit that baffles me.
hmmm.

[frank frankly]

24. I got here via a link at buzzflash.com

I love DU!

:hi:

[bhunt70]

25. went to a rally

got a handout.

[KYDEM]

28. I thought

I was the only person in the world that thought something was not right on Sept.11. I'm not sure where I linked from but am glad I did this place has saved my sanity

[teknomanzer]

30. Found this site right after the Bush appointment...

I was surfing anti-Bush sites and found Hated.com, whose links have grown from the mere 15 or so they had then. One of the links was DU. I registered right away. I haven't posted much, but I'm here just about every day. I love this site.

[linazelle]

31. My local (now defunct) liberal talk show website posted it

It was Ski and Skinner in Chicago that listed DU...I've been hooked ever since my first post when I found a thread about common enemy Jay Leno.

DU is really a breath of fresh air--it's heaven to be among (mostly) like-minded people.

[Metatron]

33. The Hate Mail

was a "Mystery Link" at Unknownnews.net. The hate mail had me laughing so much, that it took over six months before I even looked at the rest of the site.

[SayitAintSo]

34. Linked here from Bartcop ....

Love both sites !!!

[dobak]

36. I messed up

[dobak]

38. I think I have this one won

I was causing a shitstorm over at FreeRepublic. Someone over there said "DU Alert" after I made a comment that was not favorable about Ann Coulter's book "Treason".

I asked what DU meant, and someone told me.

I've been here ever since.

:-)

[foreigncorrespondent]

39. Word of mouth.

Sapphocrat told me about it last year.

She had been lurking for a while. So I came on and began lurking for a while then decided to join. After I joined I finally got Sappho to join as well.

[OldEurope]

41. Found the address in my newspaper

Süddeutsche Zeitung

:hi:

[FDRrocks]

42. Accident

I luv it I luv it I luv it (waves legs in the air)!

[sugarcookie]

43. IMDB Soapbox

Lots of political discussion was going on there before the war. A poster referred to DU. I did a search and followed the links.

[Valerie5555]

45. Unwittingly stumbled on to it after Sept 11 2001

ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS??????????????????? :)

[Aidoneus]

46. first read of it from some rightwing board

I figured anybody they hated had to be worth a look, and I started posting after a few days of observing.. somewhere around August to October 2001, forget exactly.

[TrogL]

47. Free Republic

anything the Freepers hated that much must have somethimg going for it

[rudeboy666]

49. Same here

FR virtually ran a free advertising campaign for DU.(Jim Robinson eventually had to post a thread asking the Freepers to quit mentioning/linking to DU).

[Capn Sunshine]

48. I was watching the funeral for democracy/inaugural parade

when all of a sudden there were these guys holding up a sign "democraticunderground.com" I wrote it down, and proceeded to get rip roaring drunk.

While in this sorry state, I put all the papers I had , all my "Gore won" stuff, everything, swept it up off my table in the kitchen in a catharsis, determined to start a new life, an apolitical one dedicated to filthy lucre, worship of mammon. I put my half finished diatribes against the annointed prince away, along with notes, democratic buttons, DLC letters and folders, in a box and tossed it in the corner of my library together with a bunch of fishing gear.

I escaped. For awhile. Then early on the day of my 50th birthday party, a bunch of rich Saudis crashed jets into the Trade center.

I canceled my party. I wrote a LTE about how poorly served we were by the Star wars Defense system push, and remembered a source I had in an old mgazine in a box. Rooting through it, out floated a piece of blue lined notebook paper with "democraticunderground.com" scrawled in a drunken hand.

I signed on that night after a particularly hellish day with all of our banks transactions frozen in time and space, and unable to reach anyone East of Cleveland.

I read a thread about a Yak.That was refreshingly strange. My kind of people.Sign me up.

[Fridays Child]

50. Don't remember but awfully glad I did.

[Speck Tater]

51. Linked here from Dean blog. n/t