Last year, I made fun of it. This year, I'm envious that the Democratic candidates are paying attention to their soldiers.
It's called YearlyKos, borrowing its name from the most popular liberal blog, DailyKos, but is not founded by Kos himself. It's an annual convention of liberal bloggers and activists which is now pulling all of the Democratic heavies as participants, including Hillary Clinton.
Jose Antonio Vargas has a piece in today's WaPo worth reading which points out just how influential the liberal netroots convention has become.
The biggest nugget worth noting in this space is Markos' realization that campaigns can not be won with his blessing and his readers' applause and vitriol spewing forth in the comment threads alone, but that he is rather one critical part of a campaign strategy:
"The fact is, the Net roots cannot win elections by ourselves," Markos "Kos" Moulitsas Zúniga, founder of Daily Kos and the namesake of the event, said this week. "But we can be a key component to a winning Democratic strategy."
Why doesn't the Right have a similar convention? I have my thoughts, but I'm interested in hearing what you have to say in the comments of this post.
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Away we go.....
I'm ready to start organizng. Should we have it Texas, Florida, Iowa or las Vegas?
How about next spring say after Febuary 5th so we can all get on the same page for our eventual nominee. And plot attack lines against their candidate.
Keynote speaker
What about inviting O'Reilly as the keynote? We're not nearly as vitriolic as the nutroots or even Freepers.
On a serious note--this would be much harder to organize on the right simply because we're not united under blind hatred of President Bush.
It would be great to see states organize smaller, 1-day conventions. Start out smaller and build a stronger infrastructure first.
Vegas?!
I think you're overlooking CPAC and related events inside the Beltway, that serve a similar purpose. The rows of talk show hosts doing their shows live, and bloggers packing press passes is pretty impressive at CPAC.
But I'm with the above, let's have a bloggers convention in Vegas, just after the national primary!!!
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