Well it's starting to show. People engaged in blogs have opinions quite different from voters who don't read blogs.
This study comes from the blog Direct Democracy cross posted on The Daily KOS.
"The more frequently a netroots activist readers blogs, the less likely s/he is to have a favorable opinion of Hillary Clinton. While netroots activists who never read blogs have an opinion of Hillary Clinton roughly comparable to all Democrats, netroots activists who regularly read political blogs actually have an overall negative opinion of Hillary Clinton, at 45% favorable and 54% unfavorable."
That's a tortured sentence but what it means is that people who read blogs, as well as those who write them, are forming an influential political group with opinions quite different from those people who depend on the mainstream media for news and opinion.
In this case, Hillary Clinton is shown deriving support from the readers of mainstream media but not from readers of blogs.
