Hewitt on South Dakota Blogs

Hugh has an article that illustrates the power of political bloggers. Apparently Tom Daschle is in a horse race for his Senate seat and local bloggers are exposing his true record. This would include his recent Michael Moore F9/11 boosterism

The influence of blogging on politics is nowhere more obvious than in South Dakota. Tom Daschle has long sold himself as a moderate to South Dakota voters, and has done so with the assistance of a very friendly local press. But now the
locals get the news via a stream of serious reporters trawling the national press and internet sites for the real news on the hyper-partisan Daschle. The result is that, for the first time in Daschle's political life, he will have to run on his record, not on what he presents as his record.

Hmmm...

sounds

very

familiar.