Word: kos
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...matured, and the gang of bloggers, commenters and readers has galvanized to be a small political force. Last weekend, as more than 800 laptop-toting lawyers, economists, teachers, housewives and others from around the country showed up for a Las Vegas convention put on by the liberal blog Daily Kos, they were joined by three members of Congress, four presidential candidates and at least seven staffers from the office of former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, one of the 2008 hopefuls. Warner spent thousands on a rooftop bash that included chocolate fountains and a sushi bar, and Bill Richardson, the governor...
...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 of the bloggers first became interested in politics during the Dean campaign, and still have enough enthusiasm about the former Vermont governor that some at the convention were handing out "Dean for America" stickers, buttons and T-shirts from his long-over presidential campaign. Former Dean staffers, from former Internet adviser...
...Washington, much of the talk is about Democrats taking back the House. And the bloggers are intensely interested in congressional races; Daily Kos covers the 2006 campaigns more thoroughly than the Washington Post. But the bloggers, like Dean, seem as energized about building a better Democratic Party for the future as they are trying to win in 2006. "We need a long-term plan that goes past the midterm elections," said Ari Melber, a blogger for Huffington Post. Dean's idea of spending money on putting organizers in all 50 states, rather than directing it only to key congressional races...
...important for bloggers not just because he's a pro-war Democrat they hate. The bloggers, for all the attention they get from potential President candidates, are often ignored in Washington for the same reason their champion Howard Dean is: they haven't won anything. In 2004, Daily Kos aggressively pushed and raised money for 15 congressional candidates; all of them lost. (To be fair, the blog got involved in some of the campaigns because they were long shots.) "If I had their record, I wouldn't be eating right now," said one veteran Democratic consultant about the bloggers...
That was surprising to the would-be presidential candidates there, though the average blogger at Daily Kos is actually 45. Wesley Clark marveled, "I'm not the only one in this crowd with gray hair!" New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson mentioned the TV show Dallas, then said bloggers might be too young to get his allusion. An exasperated middle-aged attendee yelled, "We're not that young!" Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner seemed most clued in. He kept the speech at his late-night bash short and curried favor with a medium appreciated by all ages: free food...