BLOGS AND POLITICS: This article echoes something that I’ve said before — if Kerry had hired Joe Trippi, he’d probably be President-elect now.

Of course, the notion of using blogs to make a rapid response to the Swift Boat Vets’ allegations might have stumbled on the Kerry campaign’s big problem, which is that it didn’t have a very good response. But more active use of blogs would at least have kept them from being taken by surprise.