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Viva Kos Vegas? How the big lefty jamboree went down.(POLITICS)

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ONE question kept popping up again and again at the YearlyKos convention, the gathering of devotees of the Left's biggest and most popular political website, DailyKos. The question was: How can we persuade people that we're not nuts? "How do you avoid being seen as just a bunch of crazy bloggers?" asked a woman at one of many panel discussions devoted to blogs and their role in left-wing politics. How do we erase "the stigma of the crazy leftist blogger"? asked another. And just for emphasis, a few participants made their own statements by walking around wearing crudely fashioned tinfoil hats.

It was a good joke, sort of. But what about the ...

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