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Wed, 01/14/2009 - 10:04pm — lambert

Chris Bowers, quoting Elana Schor:

In the past 90 days, the Blue Dogs were mentioned 933 times in national press coverage according to Lexis-Nexis. The progressives were cited just 99 times.

This gap in media coverage is not due to numbers, as there are over 80 members of the Progressive Caucus now, compared to only 51 for Blue Dogs.

Who'd a thunk?

Bowers goes on to give some excellent prescriptions for how to remedy the obvious imbalance, so go read.

NOTE The headline is, of course, the punchline to the well-known joke that begins "Why do Blue Dogs _______," but since this is aMR SUBLIMINAL n Addams family blog, I will refrain from quoting the remainder, in the interest of changing the tone of debate in the Village. No, really.

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