HW 19: Web of Influence

On page 85, Daniel Drezner and Henry Farrell in the second paragraph, talk about how blogs are having such a large impact on US Politics. Many blogs have discussed how peoples posts can have such a large impact on the outcomes of votes nad political elections and things but I just find it so hard to believe. My point is that although many people can go on and comment about who should win the election or what to vote on with their school board and things like that it seems that just because blogs are written and people are reading and commenting on them does not mean that people should be persuaded by something that a random person wrote on the internet. Trent Lott resigned as a U.S Senate majority leader in 2002 because of the inflamtory comments he had made at Sen. Strom Thurmonds 100th birthday party that people had been talking about in an online blog that had recieved major media coverage. Essentially, I am arguing that clearly using Trent Lott's issue, blog conversations really do have a large impact on people and the media but people should not be easily swayed with their opinions and decisions just by what has been put on the internet.