Rich Liberals Vow to Fund Think Tanks
In addition, the number of liberal bloggers on the Web has been growing at a fast pace, and their blogs have become both central forums for debate over party strategies and hugely successful vehicles for campaign fundraising, including raising through online contributions more than two thirds of the $750,000 used in the surprisingly competitive House campaign of Democrat Paul Hackett in Ohio. Rosenberg has created the New Politics Institute, an organization that works with bloggers.
Democrats are franctically scrambling to match the conservative network of think tanks that has fueled the conservative political resurgence. The million-dollar question is whether all the money that is being raised will actually result in any new ideas.