There’s some surprising agreements among the netroots, which is its own consituency in some ways with its own peculiar demands. I’m glad you liked the piece.

What most of the navel gazers like Stoller don’t realize is that blogs are just a further watering down of the audience. Which means that either more money has to be spent to reach the same number of people or else less ads are directed at the same number of people.

What they also don’t realize is that it’s now much harder for a party to avoid serious faux-pas on the election trail. With so many armchair strategists spewing their gibberish onto the net, it makes it virtually guaranteed that someone will say something stupid enough to cause the party leaders to have to defend or distance themselves from it or risk taking damage. This will be particularly troublsome for Harper this election season. He’s managed to muzzle the nutters in the party caucus, but not the supporters.