Part of my daily routine is to open 15 tabs in Firefox with my favorite blogs. At the end of the day, it is a quick, easy way to gauge what happened on the campaign trail and decide where to dig in deeper. I realize the repugs have dominated the news cycles since their hatefest in Minnesota two weeks ago so their candidates are getting all the attention. And rightly so, Palin's past and McCain's honorless lies need to be exposed, dissected and discredited.
What concerns me is the visual impression of the the home page of most of the progressive blogs. It seems every other word on DailyKos, TalkingPointsMemo and ThinkProgress are covered up with the M word and the P word. Obama is barely mentioned in the post titles and occasionally in the body of the posts. Poor Biden is rarely, if ever mentioned.
Here is a wordcloud of DailyKos on Friday around 7:30 PM CST:
Somehow I can help but think all these free impressions are helping their candidate and hurting ours.