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NYT reviews Matt Bai’s The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics


Based on my experience and knowledge as they related to the title, it seems overstated and unnecessarily (if incorrectly) bloated, but I haven’t read the book yet. And I certainly didn’t write the book, or do its research. So, I’ll have to see.

Here’s the New York Times’ review, by Michiko Kakutani, “Democrats Face Online Diagnoses, But No Cure Yet.”

More about Matt Bai here. This piece by him got a lot of play in the blogs (and an exchange of emails with me).

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:18 am August 28th, 2007 in Politics 

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2 Responses to “NYT reviews Matt Bai’s The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics”

  1. 1 Blue Dog Rising on August 28th, 2007 2:26 pm

    Another good catch, Jill. Bai’s book is probably fascinating.

    The internal Dem debate described in this Times review was echoed in the 38-comment throwdown on BSB last weekend about Open Left tracking Ohio “Bush Dogs” like Mike Vick on a pit bull.

    If Bai’s premise is that Dems need new vision and policies as well as new communication tools and think tanks to match and keep beating the wingnuts, then he’s dead on.

    Doesn’t mean you can’t keep bashing Bush on Iraq quagmire. It means you gotta come up with some news approaches to jobs, education, energy etc especially in Ohio — and just maybe you have to (gasp) work with Republicans.

    Tip: Keep watching Ted Strickland. He gets it.

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