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...I'd be curious about seeing reported is the demographic composition of these "Kossacks" and other "1,500 liberal bloggers and activists" -- I mean, are they all white and upper middle class? Were there any working class bloggers attending? Are there even any working class liberal bloggers out there? Black bloggers? Latin bloggers? And so on? How many of the 1,500 are from elite universities? I would think Salon would do people a service by revealing information on that, to get a better sense of what this "movement" (?) represents. Who gets to attend the party says a lot about what gets said at all.
It's likely that the 1,500 are an even narrower wedge than the broader demographics of the Democratic Party's potential primary (and definitely general) electorate. So, yeah, Clinton would play well with that crowd.
I'm much more in favor of big tent liberalism, versus narrowcast, focus-grouped, pinpoint progressives. I think the Democratic Party would benefit from having a lot of ideas introduced at the table, versus everybody being railroaded into supporting a politician or politicians who represent a very narrow set of ideas.
