Glenn Reynolds:
One place where a weblog did make the difference, or at least a large part thereof, was in the defeat of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota. Professor Jon Lauck's Daschle v. Thune weblog played a big role (along with quite a few other South Dakota political blogs) in nationalizing that campaign, and in applying scrutiny to South Dakota's main political news outlet, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, whose pro-Daschle slant had previously gone unchallenged. The Argus Leader's sputtering responses are the best proof that this had an impact, but folks also noticed in neighboring North Dakota.
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