All Headline News - Internet, "Netroots" Activists Help Topple Lieberman - August 9, 2006

One down, 99 to go. Vive la revolution!

"Washington, DC (AHN)-Sparked by opposition to the Iraq war and dissatisfaction with the Bush administration, liberal grass-roots and Internet activists were key assets in securing a political victory over Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman.

Ned Lamont, a millionaire businessman who has never held state or federal office, had almost zero name recognition and very little political experience when he entered the race.

But his opposition to the Iraq war drew the attention of activists, bloggers and groups like MoveOn.org, which unleashed an army of volunteers who went house-to-house in Connecticut for months and made 80,000 phone calls in the days before the primary vote.

Carol Darr, director of George Washington University's Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, tells Reuters, 'What you're witnessing is the democratization of democracy and don't expect it to be pretty.'"

All Headline News - Internet, "Netroots" Activists Help Topple Lieberman - August 9, 2006