(via the Kleinheider) The full extent of the power blogs have to focus media attention on the public interest is something elected officials should more than ponder.

On the score of blogger effectiveness, just ask Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Roy Herron, a Democratic state senator whose dissembling and back-and-forthing on a legislative resolution opposing the federal Employee Free Choice Act was exposed by several attentive bloggers acting in concert. Maybe it was this embarrassment that prompted Herron to redeem himself with progressives by salvaging an endangered paper-ballot initiative. D’ya think?

Ask Republican state senator Diane Black about the furor, stretching all the way to CNN, that erupted when one of her staffers was exposed by blogger Newscoma as the sender of an e-mailed “portrait of the presidents” depicting 43 presidents as usual and the 44th, Barack Obama, as a pair of goggle eyes in black space.

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