Jeff Jarvis comments on an Andrew Sullivan post claiming that the blogs are too partisan and that there isn't enough hybrid or cross over blogs that cover a variety of parts of the political spectrum. Jeff sort of agrees but says that
But blogs will only reflect the world and the world is filled with partisans -- not as many as media would paint in its single shades of red and blue. And blogs -- because they are about conversation -- also amplify partisanship sometimes because that's what you do when you argue a point.
Actually it seems to me, we are seeing various odd ad hoc alliances these days and I put this down to the blogosphere. For example Michelle Malkin and Ted Rall partly agree about US Immigration and I noted a strange UK one as well today too.
I would expect this might occur more often than people realize because they haven't really taken on board the changes in alignment in the last few years. I would say that the pro/anti Iraq war has split all sorts of otherwise natural allies. E.g. libertarians, isolationists and the radical left were all antiwar while many more moderate lefties found themselves agreeing more with neocons and Bushites which Michael Totten noted this yesterday in a very interesting article about "Liberal Hawks".
Gay Marriage is another one and one that splits differently to the antiwar thing. I have no doubt there are others, it will be interesting to see how many others we see.
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