Jan 12 2009
The Independent President
Blogger Lee Stranahan, over at Bob Cesca’s blog, once posited the emergence of a new kind of political classification – “Obamacrats” he called them, and loosely defined them as people who had more in common with Obama’s outlook than with any particular wing of the Democratic party.
As a rule, this blog doesn’t deal specifically with politics, but this phenomenon is interesting enough that I’m willing to track it. John Heilemann, in an article in New York magazine, echoes Lee’s thoughts:
http://nymag.com/news/features/all-new/53380/index1.html
The political implications of this network are impossible to overstate. “They have basically invented their own party that is compatible with the Democratic Party but is bigger than the Democratic Party,” the Republican media savant Stuart Stevens, who helped to elect George W. Bush twice, argues. “Their e-mail list is more powerful than the DNC or RNC. In essence, Obama [was] elected as an independent with Democratic backing—like Bernie Sanders on steroids.”
(emphasis mine)
He”s making a larger point than that, of course. It’s a 4 page article, of which I’ve quoted less than one paragraph. But this core idea is one I think is worth watching.
QT
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