One reason progressive political blogging has been successful over the past five or six years is that we progressive bloggers are awesome. Another reason, though, has been that the broader political and media situation clearly left a gaping void ready to be filled by the millions and millions of Americans who thought George W. Bush was doing a crappy job as president even back when he was pretty popular. And beyond the niche issue, it’s simply easier for a commentary-driven medium to exist in the opposition — looking at stuff other people say and do and explaining why it’s wrong or making fun of it. Thus, I’m certainly expecting the rise of a Democratic-controlled Washington to be good for conservative talk radio.
It won’t be the same, of course, because those guys aren’t starting from zero and they don’t have the technological winds at their back. But in the early months, especially, even conservative politicians will probably be mostly eschewing the sort of extremely strong criticism of Barack Obama that millions of rightwingers will be yearning for.
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