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Will Obama Kill The Netroots?

By The Daily Dish

Aug 22 2009, 6:10 AM ET

by Patrick Appel

Henry Farrell posits:

The real worry for the netroots is that Obama is undermining their particular blend of online politics. He has taken the parts of netroots politics that he likes (online organizing and fundraising), while dumping the parts that he doesn’t (a strongly confrontational politics and emphasis on bottom-up decision making). There isn’t much room for the netroots and vigorous online partisanship in Obama’s plans for the future of the Democratic Party.

(Hat tip: Sides)



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