The Electoral-Based Community

A FEW MONTHS AGO, Markos Moulitsas, proprietor and founder of the left-wing blog Daily Kos, penned a brief but extremely insightful posting. Under the heading, “Evidence that we live in a different world,” Moulitsas pointed to a recent Time magazine poll that showed 79 percent of the American public had never heard of (or didn’t have an opinion of) Ann Coulter. Moulitsas wrote, “I’d venture to say that 100 percent of this site’s readers know who Anthrax is.”