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...Liberal bloggers and their readers helped to swing the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary to anti-war candidate Ned Lamont, raising expectations that the midterms would turn this new generation of online activists into kingmakers. Yet in the midst of a Democratic wave, the netroots candidates failed to sweep, causing some pundits to claim that the netroots' influence continues to be overstated: "The Netroots Election? Not So Fast," editorialized The Nation. When Rick Perlstein tried, in The New Republic, to claim the election as a netroots triumph, Ryan Lizza replied in the magazine's blog that in addition to having...
...there are other results that break with past patterns, Ornstein adds. Democrats did not lose a single seat - a feat the party had not accomplished since 1922. Even in the Republican sweep of 1994, the G.O.P. lost four of its open seats to Democrats. What's more, the wave swept all the way down the ballot - for instance, handing the New Hampshire House to the Democrats for the first time since...
...flags wave behind a big ship with big guns: Ol’ Glory and the rising red sun. Oh, I get it! It’s about World War II! My guess is that the big noise from those big guns sounds a lot like thunder, so you could perhaps call the Pacific Ocean the “sea of thunder.” Bob Woodward has a one-line review of it on the back, so you know it’s the real deal...
...other hand, Matt Stoller, a prominent liberal blogger on the site mydd.com, wrote "economic progressives, some of whom are more conservative on social issues, and some of whom are not, did extremely well. A wave of liberals won in the Northeast...
There is nothing scary or suspenseful about the newest wave of horror films. Torture and barbarity are merely cheap shock. If you want a truly scary film, check out Roman Polanski's Repulsion or Rosemary's Baby. Polanski knows it's not gore that scares an audience but a steadily growing sense of overwhelming apprehension and dread...