Bradley pretty much nails it.
I remember the night before the ’06 midterms when the talkers were predicting failure for the Dems.
Dems won huge of course, and the next morning all the Republican talkers reinvented themselves as “independent conservatives”.
Their slogan was: “Democrats didn’t win, conservatives didn’t lose!” Yeah, right.
Right-wing talk has peaked. Bradley overlooks the netroots however, by treating them as merely a left-wing version of Limbaugh.
Netroots are still in their infancy and have already eclipsed the talkers in their ability to organize and impact elections. Netroots is not just Democratic bloggers. It is the real journalists like Josh Marshall who won a George Polk award this week for his tenacious reporting that played a large role in Alberto Gonzales being forced from office.
Netroots is the GOTV efforts that have produced 2:1 margins for Democrats in many of this years primaries. Netroots efforts fill sports arenas with 20,000 voters for Obama, while John McCain struggles to attract 300 McCainiacs to the local Ramada Inn.
And netroots is the massive fundraising success story that has Hillary and Obama raking in a combined 85 million dollars last month, compared to McCain’s paltry 12 million.
Nothing like this exists on the right. And talk radio can never deliver these results.
