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...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 - a button dubbed "The Kiss," showing President Bush putting his lips on the right cheek of Senator Joe Lieberman at the State of the Union in 2005. The bloggers have focused much of their energy and money this year in supporting Lamont's campaign to defeat Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic primary this August, believing that one of the best ways to improve the Democratic Party is to purge...
...beating Lieberman would be 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...
...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...
...Really the Kingmaker? He says no. But if Joe Lieberman loses his Senate primary and jeopardizes a Democratic seat, the leading liberal blogger knows that he will be blamed...
...speech starts with a warm celebration of the site?s achievements (including the somewhat dubious claim that Jon Tester owes his primary Senate victory in Montana to them and not to his opponent?s zipper problem) and then becomes self-congratulatory, boasting about the insurgent primary challenge to Joe Lieberman, where the incumbent now leads by only 55-40. The message of these triumphs? That the ?riffraff? has triumphed over the elite. It?s all very empowering, though the speech?s crescendo is about how the liberal blogosphere propelled Stephen Colbert?s White House Correspondents? dinner speech into...