Jay Rosen: “Ten years later, the press still officially clings to: ‘We’re professionals who have no partisan role,’ but the costs of denial and of reasoning in a vacuum have built up over the years. There are stresses and fractures that can no longer be ignored.”
Daily Kos: “Being the eternal optimist, I assume our nominee will be the face of the Democratic Party for the next eight years. Given I want to retake both the House and the Senate by 2006, the question thus becomes, ‘Who do I want representing the party through 2012?’ Who will give us the best chance to take back Congress from the GOP?”