Saturday, September 16, 2006

Bloggers for Patrick

While the liberal blogosphere is mostly focused on the battle for seats in Congress this November, they have still managed to take a side on the Massachusetts Gubernatorial Primary, and they have thrown their support behind Deval Patrick.

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, founder of the popular blog Dailykos wrote about the race in July.

“Deval Patrick’s campaign is a people-powered movement. Chris Gabrieli is trying to win the race the old-fashioned way -- by buying it. He has sent $2.5 million in television advertisement. And while it has boosted his numbers, it has done so at the expense of the other ‘establishment candidate,’ Attorney General Tom Reilly,” he said. “Meanwhile Patrick, who is trying to become his state's first black governor, is steadily building an army of people and the results are startling. We truly are building a new political order in which money is losing its potency.”

Another Dailykos contributor compared Patrick to Democratic Senate nominee, Ned Lamont, the darling of liberal bloggers. “Lamont's campaign isn't the only New England Democratic revolution going on. Patrick has been working his campaign a lot longer than Ned, but it shows that even Massachusetts Democrats want change within their party.”

Matt Stoller, of MyDD.com has listed Patrick on his list of favorite politicians calling him “Simply awesome. He's smart, honest, a risk-taker, credible, progressive and a fighter. His campaign is the most innovative state-wide campaign this cycle (with possible competition from Connecticut), and he's turning out to be competitive against a very strong Massachusetts machine using an organizing base tied into the web.”

Posted by Michael Corcoran at 04:48 PM

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