Phantoms Of The Sarahdice

by digby

Boehlert has a great post up today about the Alaskan bloggers influence on Sarah Palin’s decision to quit. It’s clear that Palin is very thin skinned and was very bothered by the annoying blogger mosquitoes that continued to pester her after the general election.

I don’t know if this can be replicated anywhere else. This is the strange combination of a very small population with a very inexperienced politician who doesn’t have the skill or emoptional capability of governance beyond the small town city council stuff she was used to. But it certainly is an indication that under the right circumstances, local and state blogs can have an impact.

Boehlert wrote about the Alaska blogs in his book “Bloggers on the Bus” and it’s a chapter worth revisiting if you have the chance. For all the hoohah about the national blogger profiles in the book, this may be the most important chapter. The Alaska blogs had far more impact than the rest of us did on the 2008 race — and possibly the 2012 race as well.

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