The credit for Paul Hackett goes to…
How does Kos get credit for this? He blew the race off the first time he mentioned it. For a month the blogosphere ignored the race, including
Kossacks. I started out blogging the race, and then Tim Tagaris blow
the thing open on the net with the blogosphere day. It was a nice
coordination of local and national bloggers, but I wouldn’t give Kos any
credit for it.
Fair enough, and I retract my flippantly made (somewhat mocking) statement. It’s your creation, and it’s http://www.bizzyblog.com’s, or so suggests my quick search through the blogosphere. And, fairly certainly the Paul Hackett — Jean Schmidt race was the only game in only game in town.
This commenter can read this graph better than I can, and knows better than I what might have spiked up Paul Hackett’s “q-rating”. Chief among the blog-burst creators (from my quick reading of a search engine archive) being the dccc’s web post of July 9, and the subsequent “Blogosphere Day” (a first year anniversary reprise of, if I want to stretch some credit of any kind to kos, kos’s “Blogosphere Day” for Ginny Schrader.)… the Debates appear to have caused a small stir of blog activity for Paul Hackett as well.
The chief blog enemies of Paul Hackett appear to have been found at http://made4theinternet.blogspot.com and http://www.porkopolis.blogspot.com .
As for the reason for the kos reference… it’s simply a continued reflex at his 2004 glowing praise of Oklahoma Senate candidate Brad Carson, who is the poster-child of that American Prospect article’s question.