I would hazard to say that that’s because the blogosphere has grown sick of the tone of arrogant, condescending, tone-deafness of the inside-the-beltway pundit class, and would appreciate a little more respect, and a little less dismissive presentation of “talk to the hand,” thank you very much. -AS
It occured to me the other day that 'the netroots' might be forming the base, right in front of our eyes, for the first successful third-party candidate.
Now, if the Dobson-misled evangelicals get their own candidate, we might actually have some interesting electoral politics in the USA, instead of multi-billion dollar campaigns to nowhere.