Grudgingly, the MSM have been recognizing the strength of the progressive blogosphere.  Yes, the individual diarists' posts may not reach the press that much.  But that the most notable bloggers are endorsing someone is a big deal.

In a way, I wish it weren't so, because the strength of this movement is in the broader numbers, but the numbskulls they call journalists in the MSM can only handle a few names at a time.

Public confidence in the news media is not as great as it once was, so that a newspaper reporting that Atrios or Markos endorses Edwards (especially if the MSM are snide about it) might cause a reader to wonder what the fuss is all about and learn something about someone other than Clinton or Obama.

...I think it would be really cool if we all (those that can afford it) would donate the dollar equivalent of Edwards' Iowa percentage... If John gets 32% of the vote, we each donate $32 to the campaign.

A great way to show solidarity and support on "the morning after".

What say you, fellow Edwards supporters?

Personally, he could call himself Reagan reincarnated and I wouldn't care.  I value what people did with their lives, not what they say in their political campaigns.

I find Obama to be a much more progressive person and legislator than any of his rivals from the Senate, current campaign language notwithstanding.

I could have written it myself.

   I have waited a long time for a true progressive who can win and beat any Republican. I began reading the "Progressive" magazine not long after I left my parent's farm and quit looking at the "Progressive Farmer".

...[W]e believe, once again, that John Edwards is the candidate who will finally put an end to the plaintive mewling for, and cooing about, the need for bi-partisanship and consensus in our capital.

   I love this quote. "Mewling" is a great word for this reference to Obama's leadership style. "Cooing" is strong but not as strong as a pointed reference to Hillary. I see her more in the mode of "calculating" as in "I'll cave on health care for all if you will give me NAFTA from the early Clinton administration. I know the final decision was made by Bill but since there was no later effort to fully implement health care for all, you have to assume she "submitted" to the deal.

I think they have every right to talk about who they're voting for, and I'm kind of curious myself.

But saying things like "The Sphere Coalescing" is ridiculous.  Some prominent bloggers in a sea of tens of thousands of bloggers endorsed a candidate.  Some of those weren't even full endorsements.

We're getting a little ahead of ourselves if we think the blogosphere is "coalescing" around a candidate cause a handful of popular bloggers say so.