They've crashed the gates - to borrow a phrase from Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's book on the "Net roots" movement - and possibly arrived as the next gatekeepers. YearlyKos, the convention spawned from Moulitsas's popular political blog, Daily Kos, is hosting half a dozen Democratic candidates in Chicago this weekend. That's six more candidates than came to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council's annual "conversation," a formerly high-profile Democratic campaign stop, in Nashville this past weekend. Here's how the two events compare: - Rachel Dry
SOURCES: YearlyKos, DLC | The Washington Post - August 03, 2007
