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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...
...crowd at yearly Kos, the Daily Kos' bloggers' convention in Las Vegas last week, was predictably politigeeky. Glued to their laptops, the bloggers wore their liberal hearts on their lapels. (The most popular button showed Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, reviled for his pro-war position, kissing George W. Bush.) But in defiance of the image of the blogger, the crowd wasn't young...
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...
...Everyone knows that the attendance at Yearly Kos by so many traditional politicians (we?re also going to be treated to speeches by Tom Vilsack, Howard Dean and Harry Reid) assures bloggers? place in the political universe. Shortly before Moulitsas?s speech, Joe Trippi gropes for the right metaphor, comparing politicians? courting of this nascent movement to the presidential primaries: ?No one wants to skip Iowa.? Yet the politicians especially seem to be figuring it out as they go along - fear of missing the boat outweighs doubt about its final destination. Clark gives his speech on American innovation...