Joshua Levy 12/19/2007 - 12:17pm

Glenn Greenwald takes Chris Dodd's FISA victory seriously, unlike most of big media; Colin Delany is impressed with the grassroots effort behind Dodd; BlogHer asks why the candidates won't speak with them; a partnership between Rock the Vote and AT&T gets out the vote, text-style; a new site compares the candidates, and Obama and Clinton supporters engage in a Microsoft vs. Apple-style switcher's war.

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Joshua Levy 10/25/2007 - 11:33am

Chris Dodd gets dugg; Glenn Greenwald has high praise for Chris Dodd and harsh words for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton; Compete.com develops new charts to show where the candidates lie on the political spectrum; a new faux-od (fauxde?) to Ann Coulter from the makers of Obama Girl; two new excellent reports from Off The Bus; Generation Engage fails to engage the top tier of the GOP; and Jose Antonio Vargas does video with young voters.

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Joshua Levy 02/09/2007 - 10:54am

John Edwards decided not to fire bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen for things they wrote before he hired them, receiving acclaim from the left and the right, respectively. "This is all being made up as we go along," said Simon Rosenberg of the New Democrat Network in the Times' wrap-up, which compared the Edwards bloggers' statements to inflammatory statements made by Patrick J. Hynes, the conservative blogger hired by John McCain.

Glenn Greenwald claims success at getting the "MSM" to balance the story: "[the blogosphere] forced into the public discussion critical facts that were being omitted and which exposed the absurdity of this story, thereby providing a counterweight to the joint right-wing/media pressure on Edwards to capitulate to these forces." John Palfrey calls the attacks on Edwards' bloggers "an extension of classic opposition research. It points to some of the risks at having people blog on behalf of a campaign in an official capacity." Phil Noble adds, "we have a new technology that's disrupting the whole political process, and we haven't figured out what the rules are."

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