Will some Lefty blogs be part of the fallout surrounding Kerry's loss? Red State points out that Daily Kos has been pumping up 15 congressional candidates this cycle, with their readers pouring in over half a million dollars to support them. The result - all 15 were defeated. Ouch.

All told, that's $547,157.97 of donated money, squandered on the basis of the mass trust placed in Moulitsas by his readers. ...The missing element in the Kos Dozen was sound, basic political judgment, informing the decisions on whom to fund, and in whom the donors could place their trust. And therein is the second lesson to be learned: mastery of the mechanisms of netroots mobilization is a different thing from mastery of the methods. Someone in the DCCC is laughing tonight at the humiliation of a bete noir who refused to grasp the value of wisdom and experience in politics -- and paid for it with a hugely expensive and very public 100% failure rate.

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