At OpenLeft, Chris Bowers cites a regression analysis performed by a Kossack showing that Sen. Barack Obama is winning virtually all Dean voters from 2004, and a plurality of Clark voters from 2004 — a coalition of voters for the two main nutroots candidates from the last cycle. Bowers seems excited:
So, let’s see here: a campaign that uses extensive internet organizing, huge campaign rallies, heavy youth and creative class support, a record breaking number of small donors, a fulfilled promise of record turnout, and combination of Dean and Clark voters to force the best possible candidate the Democratic establishment could offer down to the wire?. Correct me if I am wrong, but in terms of structure, that seems to be exactly what the emergence of the progressive blogosphere suggested could happen in a Democratic Presidential primary in 2004. Just because the campaign in question was not, seemingly, single-handedly plucked from relative obscurity by a few prominent bloggers does not mean the Obama campaign is not using the exact same energy and exact same new, political trajectory that the blogosphere was riding back in 2003-2004.
Bowers goes on declare:
It feels like the butterfly effect, the Frankenstein monster, or some sort of self-mutating computer virus.
IT’S ALIVE!!! IT’S ALIVE!!!
Usually, the Left would leave it to the Right to call their candidate a monster and a virus. Bowers is ahead of the curve.
OBAMA/LAMONT ’08!
It’s articulate! It’s ARTICULATE!
godspeed, Mr. Obama.
hes the only thing that can keep bilary from 8 long years with the reins of power firmly glued to its filthy paws while ruthlessly engineering the history books of the future.
btw never doubt that bilary is a monster too.
“…youth and creative class support”
Have any of them ever run a business?
I love self-proclaimed geniuses, don’t you?
Experiencing the exhilarating period between the first twitch on the slab and the first littering complaint.
Regards,
Ric
The internet is a wonderful wonderful invention, especially for times when mass information dissemination is needed. Just like campaign elections. The internet must be saving the candidates tons of money. Thank God for smart people who invented the net!
Youth support? That’s pretty much an oxymoron in politics.
“Youth support”: in my book, that’s just an extra-tight jockstrap.
A small little quibble if I might.
Ummm, while this analysis of Obama’s intra-Party support may be true I hardly think that anyone on the ‘other’ side of the political divide has the chops to call anyone anything referring to nut at this point in time.
Based upon the current over-reaction of the supposedly ‘sane’ half of the intertube’s political divide to the McCain situation, I think that nuttiness displays a equal distribution curve across the spectrum.
Or maybe nuttiness is a form of zero sum game where it is a finite resource and a reduction of it somewhere automatically translates to an increase of it elsewhere. Should that be the case, I fear that perhaps the term nutroots might be finding a new and not at all improved home in the near future.
The VERY near future.
I agree that there are nuts in the Republican Party, and John McCain is their leader.
And Hillary! is the lightning rod.
Did you see where the mothership people have discovered you K? I don’t remember that happening before.
I saw that, hf.
I’d get mentioned there, too, but they’ve already “discovered” me.
I’m agreeing with you Shiela. Discovering of the net is really grateful and useful so, how it become some sort of self-mutating computer virus. I think it depends on how to use the net.
The Internet has become a very powerful tool to spread information and to connect people in practically all parts of the world. It’s fast and easy to use. As long as you have a connection, anyone can reach you and you can reach anyone.