Con-Blogger DOMINATION

In the current "most divisive" era in American politics (seriously don't buy that, any first-past-the-post system with only one winner will always be two party, will always be divided, and will never yield any prolonged "Era of Good Feeling" coalition building panacea--pardon me for the ramble) the StarTribune reports that bloggers "are begining to dominate the battles."

The article claims that liberal bloggers are ascendant even though conservative sites are gaining substantial readership. They make one real good point: "There are far more small conservative blogs with readerships of less than a few thousand than there are progressive blogs. Plus, these smaller blogs are good at tapping into local concern, and perhaps local political races."

(And Matt Lewis and the News is the blog for those that local and state blogs. If you are familiar with a great local or state blog, we'd like to see it, and perhaps link to you, so email boz@campaignleadership.com.)

Fraters Libertas takes issue with the bolded fragment below:

"Today, progressive bloggers appear to be the frontrunners. While conservative bloggers focused their strategy on developing uniform messaging and targeted a demographic they understood well for many years, most of the progressive sites coalesced from various activist and interest groups that had been looking for similar communities. Also, the progressive bloggers greatly benefited from the demand for information to counter Bush's reelection campaign in 2004."

To this Fraters' says: "So that's what we've been doing? Developing uniform messaging and targeting a demographic? I must have not gotten that memo. One would also think that with all the power and influence that these progressive blogs supposedly now have, they would have an impressive string of electoral victories under their belts. Last time I checked, they had yet to get off the schneid."

Personally, I think it's interesting to point out the larger picture. Conservatives actually have a movement with a unified vision and solid philosophical and political foundation (of course we have our nuances). So natually, conservative bloggers will be pretty much on message with each other on the basics. However, liberalism, what is that?

I'm seriously serious. There is no "progressive vision," or "liberal movement" in this country. So the blogs will reflect this. The Democratic electorate, and the liberal bloggers are united by one thing: hating President Bush. That's it. Their "movement," or their "New Direction for America" is simply a cornucopia of special interests that has no foundation outside opposing President Bush. Local blogs are tough to imagine working for liberal candidates because of this fact. Which is great for us, so long as we stay true to the foundation of conservatism.