Net effects: netroots activists are liberal firebrands? Tell that to Sherrod Brown.(Dispatches)
American Prospect, The, December, 2005 by Klein, Ezra
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IT'S NOT EXACTLY RARE TO SEE THE blogosphere in an uproar. But the recent row between supporters of Paul Hackett and backers of Representative Sherrod Brown, who are vying for the Democratic nomination for senator from Ohio, was a bit odder than most. In this fight, the "netroots," the term for the blogosphere and the online activists who populate it, has come out against a committed liberal and natural ally in favor of a brash Iraq War veteran with a more conservative bent and a paltry political record.
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Five years back, few cared which way the netroots swung. A ...
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