Jim Hoeft over at Bearing Drift has a great op-ed from Paul Goldman concerning the negative effect Webb-supporting blogs have had on his campaign:
Without the Blogger’s over-the-top attacks on Miller, would this be a different campaign right now?
We will never know.
But what we do that in the new two weeks, Miller is free to make an almost exclusive negative against Webb because the Bloggers created the climate to do it.
Ditto.
Positive and negative campaigning have a role in politics. But what does not have a role is nasty campaigning. Webb supporters take note: when Harris Miller wins, the blame can be squarely placed on a Democratic blogosphere run amok.