Required Reading

From Michael Barone:

Going into the 2004 election cycle, just about everyone said the Internet was going to change politics. But no one was sure how. Now we know....So what hath the blogosphere wrought? The left blogosphere has moved the Democrats off to the left, and the right blogosphere has undermined the credibility of the Republicans' adversaries in Old Media. Both changes help Bush and the Republicans.

Barone also points out how much damage the internet, and the Kos Coalition of Hatred, has done to the carefully constructed Clinton version of the Middle-Way Democratic Party, in the political game where the folks who can deliver the fund-raising are the folks who set the rules.

Read the whole thing.