Comments on: Ned Says “Happy Blogosphere Day” to the FDL Crew

By: overstatingtheobvious

overstatingtheobvious — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:52:11 +0000

I wonder if there’s a way to accurately assess the impact of the blogosphere upon this primary. I for one wouldn’t have had this level of interest if it wasn’t for blogs like FDL & others. Are there thousands like me. Tens of thousands? More? Seems to me, re: internet/politics intersection, this is a milestone.

By: BushYouth

BushYouth — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:37:50 +0000

“Florida Power and Light”

Now that there is an important Connecticut constituancy!

By: Deborah L

Deborah L — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:21:19 +0000

I’m confused. The Medina piece says Ned’s campaign has “collected about $33,000 through its Web site and various blogs”, but ActBlue’s cumulative amount for “all pages” is $276,952.21. Almost 35k was donation just by Eschaton readers.

http://actblue.com/page/eschaton

What am I missing? Isn’t the ActBlue number a compilation of on-line donations?

By: mui

mui — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:49:20 +0000

Oh wait Top Contributors by Employer from Individuals to Lieberman. Here’s Choicepoint. Niiiiice, HoJo!
http://www.fecinfo.com/cgi-win.....,$JOSEPH$I

By: mui

mui — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:43:19 +0000

Political Money Line seems to require a subscription for full access.
Nice little profile of Joe though:
http://www.fecinfo.com/cgi-win.....=S8CT00022*2006

By: DeWitt Grey

DeWitt Grey — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:58:23 +0000

Go see the latest Quinnipiac poll at Steve Gilliard’s showing Lamont racing ahead of Lieberman with likely primary voters:

http://www.stevegilliard.blogspot.com/

This candidacy is for real, folks, but the hardest part of the battle still lies ahead — the hardball PAC-fueled slimy paid-media blitz will be coming from Joe any day now.

By: doug r

doug r — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:57:34 +0000

Grandma J at 4 – It kept doing that to me too! I was able to get through using a proxy eventually – which I had to do for about 2 months.
Then, this week I tried FDL again, and things were just fine, like it never happened!
I guess our computers must have been looking in the wrong place for some reason…

By: Everythingseemssoneat

Everythingseemssoneat — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:40:44 +0000

Finally a politician that doesn’t respond to questions by first saying look or listen.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:06:26 +0000

Thanks …. and your little dog too 44….

I can’t understand how they can get away with no new primaries.

But I assume the new maps proposed will be thrown out, too.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:05:39 +0000

And, by the way, it would be a good idea for Ned to sell his Haliburton Stock and any others like it. As that famous American once said:

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

And if that stock comes up again, what he should say is:

“Boy, that was embarassing, wasn’t it? But I thank Joe for pointing it out! Next question…”