"It's clear that bloggers played a big role. They've shown how much influence they can have," [Edwards] observed in a conversation between events. "Influence in a positive way. Bloggers are going to play a big role, not just locally, but nationally.
"It helps democratize the media. It's a way for more voices to be heard. Even the mainstream media now recognize this," he said.
It wasn't just the bloggers - and it wasn't just the high-profile Senate race - that pulled back the curtain Aug. 8 and exposed the Wizards of Oz who have fooled so many people into thinking they merit kowtowing to.
Newspaper editorialists and town committee chairmen - those powerbrokers John Edwards didn't put on his priority list for his visit - lost big, not just in the Senate race, but in the gubernatorial primary, too.
The mayors and town committees of Bridgeport, Hartford and Waterbury endorsed Dannel Malloy over John DeStefano for governor, for instance. DeStefano won the vote in all those cities [...]
The papers generally went with Lieberman, too. And lost.
The point of editorials isn't to pick winners, but to persuade readers to consider a candidate who best reflects the newspaper's vision. On that score, too, the editorials revealed an irrelevance, a knee-jerk bias to preserving entrenched power: Lieberman was the incumbent; Malloy was favored by party powerbrokers.