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I agree with that somewhat Jon, but I think the internet will make it a lot better. I think the power of the MSM is declining, but that candidates having figured out how to use blogs on online news sources as effectively as I think they will the next primary election cycle.
Right now, we all read the internet political sites that reflect our biases. (For example, one heartwarming online internet poll in January on Instapundit had Thompson up by a huge margin, but Instapundit is in Tennessee and presents an outlook attractive to the kind of people who would most like Fred, so you had to know to take it for what it was worth.)
The next level will be broadening the messages across some blog networks maybe.
Now, I don't think blogs will be a big factor as much in the general elections because I don't know that a significant portion of the American public wants to read its news and political coverage online. Some of us like our info. prepackaged and presented with lots of scrolling graphics and good looking reporters.
But for the primaries, I think it may go that way since you're kind of looking at political junkies following the primaries closely in most years without a TV writers strike.
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