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But the conference was in many ways the manifestation of a candidate past rather than one of the future. The man behind both the Daily Kos and the convention, Markos Moulitsas, made his name first as an enthusiastic online supporter of Dean, who now chairs the Democratic National Committee. Many...
And even though many of the attendees might have backed other candidates in 2004, the rhetoric of the convention sounded much like Dean's campaign. Dean drew his support in 2003 and 2004 from liberals angry that leading Democrats in Washington were unwilling to attack President Bush, instead focusing on...
In fact, in Las Vegas, the most energized discussion about any political race concerned a Senate seat in Connecticut already held by a Democrat. It seemed that half the people at the convention were wearing either a "Ned Lamont for Senate" button or the angrier version of the same message...
Mark Warner kept referring to the party he threw last weekend for the attendees of the Yearly Kos convention as the "first date" between the presumptive Presidential candidate and the liberal blogosphere. It was perhaps a infelicitous metaphor, given both the seediness of Las Vegas and the ridiculous excess of...
Warner was the first Presidential hopeful to commit to coming to Yearly Kos. Jerome Armstrong, the co-author of "Crashing the Gate" with Yearly Kos namesake Markos Moulitsas, is the governor's Internet consultant and unofficial blogger liaison. Clearly, the Warner campaign has great hopes for leveraging what convention-goers...