Charges of Dirty Tricks on Web Feed Speculation in the Blogosphere

CHARGES OF DIRTY TRICKS ON WEB FEED SPECULATION IN THE BLOGOSPHERE
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Michael Cooper & John Markoff]
You may not be reading it here first, but challenger Ned Lamont beat three-term incumbent Sen Joe Lieberman in yesterday's Connecticut Democratic primary election. When Sen Lieberman's campaign Web site crashed in the hours leading up to the election, it was hard not to read some deeper meaning into the problem. Was it a sign that Sen Lieberman was clumsy when it came to marshaling the technology that his opponents had used so well against him? Or had some shadowy, sinister bloggertypes who were championing his challenger hacked into the site and shut it down, as the Lieberman campaign charged? The Lieberman campaign said that "we believe that this is the result of a coordinated attack by our political opponents." The Lamont campaign responded that "if Senator Lieberman's Web site was indeed hacked, we had absolutely no part in it, denounce the action, and urge whoever is responsible cease and desist immediately." Either way, the Web battles that marked Primary Day made for a fitting coda to a campaign that played out nearly as much on the Internet as it did on the stump. Even before Mr. Lamont entered the primary race that he would eventually win, the anger directed at Senator Lieberman over his support for the Iraq war and the Bush administration had found a focal point, and a forum, on the Web, among the bloggers and activists who call themselves Netroots.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/nyregion/09blogs.html
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* Lamont Relied On Net Roots -- And Grass Roots
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/08/AR200608...