Jim Webb gets the Netroots endorsement

By: Corey
Published On: 6/26/2006 9:18:15 PM

Tonight Jim Webb was added to the Netroots endorsement page maintained by MyDD, Swing State Project, and Daily Kos.  You can read Markos' full enodrsement here

The netroots page on ActBlue can be found here.

This was people-power in action. And no, I'm not talking Daily Kos. I'm talking about the kick-ass, aggressive, and effective Virginia netroots. Fresh off their help in getting Tim Kaine elected governor, blogs such as Raising Kane, Not Larry Sabato, and VA Progressive have helped build buzz and activism for Jim Webb.
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So what do we have in Jim Webb? A candidate that won't be easily demonized or swift boated by the usual conservative cowards. We have a candidate who is backed by a genuine and proven people-powered machine. And we have a candidate who can win and put us one seat closer to a Harry Reid-led Senate.

Comments



NOW THAT'S AN ENDORSEMENT (Josh - 6/27/2006 12:14:54 AM)
Every RK reader absolutely must go read that endorsement by kos.

I've never read anything like it.

That's not an endorsement, it's an aria.

Wow!



please ask Kos to correct the Larry Sabato error (Nell - 6/27/2006 11:52:45 AM)
The Kos post quotes LS Democrats made a smart, strategic choice in selecting former Reagan Navy Secretary James Webb as their nominee in a primary on June 13. Webb was dramatically outspent by high-tech lobbyist Harris Miller, and Webb didn't air a single TV ad or employ any of the usual campaign technologies, such as robo-calling.

As every regular reader here knows, that last part is not true.  We all got the calls. There was even a thread here around the time of the Leslie Byrne robo-call. So will Lowell, Corey, and others please email Kos or pipe up in comments at the Netroots endorsement post to ask for the correction?  I did, but I think it will likely not be noticed.  You all who are the local bloggers Kos is praising will have a far greater chance of being heard.

I'm looking for an email address for Larry Sabato to ask him to correct his post (publicly correct, not just quietly make the change).  Honestly, I can't understand how, living in Virginia and supposedly being an expert on these things, he could have been unaware that there were Webb robocalls.

If I can't find a LS email, I'll write to his Center.



Sorry. I swear that post previewed okay. n/t (Nell - 6/28/2006 5:31:46 PM)
I emailed Sabato.  No response so far, np correction of post, but other commenters remarking on existence of Webb robocalls.  It's not the biggest deal in the world, but it looks bad to float a whopper out there to the many, many people who see a Kos main page post.


Larry Sabato corrected the Crystal Ball post (Nell - 6/29/2006 10:10:27 PM)
by deleting the reference to robocalls.  They responded to my email.

Sabato was told by someone in the campaign (don't know who or when) that they weren't using robocalls.  Hope that was at least a few days before May 26, because that's when I received the first Webb call (by Leslie Byrne).  Sabato says people around C'ville were wondering about not receiving any contact from the Webb campaign while getting many Miller robocalls and mailers.  Did the campaign do volunteer phoning there instead? Any C'ville readers receive the mailer?

No chance anyone will see this and respond at this late date.  The Kos post is also uncorrected.  That's life on the insta-web.  If you don't correct something within twelve hours, it'll have scrolled off the main page and that's the end of that.  Oh well.