'The Weakness of the Democratic Party'

In writing about the liberal blog, the Daily Kos, and its founder, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, John Heileman of New York Magazine makes a very insightful comment: bq. That the Internet, which has transformed commerce and culture in ways too numerous to list, is in the early stages of transforming politics, too, strikes me as beyond debate. Yet it seems worth noting that, on the left, the rise of the blogosphere has as much to do with the weakness of the Democratic Party as with the intrinsic power of the Web; that Kos isn't so much seizing power as stepping smartly into a vacuum.