"The impact of the liberal blogosphere is becoming clearer each month. The national progressive blogs led by DailyKos, mydd, Talking Points Memo, Atrios and now TPMCafe, the Huffington Post and many, many more have driven the national conversation on the John Bolton nomination and the Rove-Plame affair. Bloggers and community members dug up old memos and connected the dots and kept the stories alive until they got picked up by the mainstream media which gave the Democratic leaders enough cover to stand up for their principles.
We are just this month seeing the power of the Internet to elevate a special election for an open seat in Ohio to national prominence. Democrat Paul Hackett is within striking distance of Republican Jean Schmidt in OH-02 in Southwestern Ohio, a district that went heavily for Bush and has had Republican congressfolk for decades. It happened because the netroots provided a pretty good sum of money, $150,000 a week ago and much more since then, to Hackett and has called out folks to make the trek to campaign for him. If Hackett wins or even gets close it will be a big upset.
Chris Bowers at mydd.com describes the impact of the progressive blogs and how much more effective they’ve been on Hackett’s behalf than the conservative blogs have been on Schmidt’s behalf."-from the post on Evergreen Politics.
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