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Thursday, August 10, 2006

Voters, not blogs, unseated Lieberman

This story is very consistent with what I've been saying for years, now ... "Analysts say 'netroots' campaign created buzz, but Lamont did the rest."

"I think one can make too much of blogs and MoveOn," said Professor Scott McLean, political science chairman at Connecticut's Quinnipiac University. "The blogs, I think, created a buzz in the media and certainly drew some money toward Lamont, but the rank-and-file voters who were the ones who put Lamont over the top are not really blog readers."