Via MSNBC.com.

Democratic bloggers say they are beginning to transform the way political campaigns are run, pointing to their recent success in raising more than $550,000 for Democratic congressional candidate Paul Hackett, a Marine veteran of the Iraq war, who came within 4,000 votes of defeating Republican Jean Schmidt two weeks ago in a special election in a heavily Republican district in Ohio.

I think it’s really just the rapid exchange of information. First it was electronic communication in the form of telemarketers, fax transmissions and email to supplement the traditional door-to-door and town meetings. Now it’s blogging. It’s just an extension of the way we communicate providing more people with a voice. I’m not sure it’s any sort of new revelation, just a greater use of an emerging technology.

It definitely helps raise campaign funds. Howard Dean proved that.

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