David McLaughlin, a reading teacher for Floyd County Schools, has won a competition to represent the “Heading Left” viewpoint on the Fox News Radio contest “Election 2008: Battle of the Blog Talkers.”   McLaughlin and Kevin Ross of Los Angeles were crowned “America’s Best Blog Talkers” for the left and right, respectively. The two winning BlogTalkRadio hosts beat six other contestants in last week’s  “Battle of the Blog Talkers."  Listeners decided the top performers.

Starting Monday, McLaughlin and Ross will join Spencer Hughes of Fox News Radio on the program “Fox Across America.” The group will co-host a week's worth of election shows from 8 to 9 a.m. EDT.

McLaughlin had to work his way through several rounds of head-to-head competition with other bloggers to earn the spot on the show with Hughes.  During the competition, Hughes moderated debates between two bloggers from BlogTalkRadio’s station. Each blogger was given five minutes of uninterrupted time to respond to the same topic. Listeners voted (via mobile-text message and online poll) for their favorite blog talker, who in turn moved onto the next round.

During the day, McLaughlin teaches reading to students at Armuchee Middle and Coosa Middle Schools.  An active local Democrat, McLaughlin launched the weekly Kudzu Vine Web radio show on Blog Talk Radio in April 2007.

Launched in August 2006, BlogTalkRadio is a web-based talk-show platform that allows any user with an Internet connection to host a live, interactive radio show – no downloads or extra equipment needed. Hosts call into the service by phone to broadcast. Each show can accommodate unlimited live listeners.  Upon completion of the live broadcast, it is automatically archived as a podcast.  Since the company’s launch, thousands of hosts have broadcast more than 130,000 shows.

For more information and to listen to McLaughlin, visit foxnewsradio.com/category/talk-radio/battle/ on the Web.