Marshall on Net fund raising

Josh Marshall reports on the success Democrat Ben Chandler had - winning the first Republican seat in a special election since 1991 - raising $100,000 on a $2,000 investment in blog ads. Says Josh:

...direct-mail, for whatever reason, just works with folks who are apt to give money to Republican campaigns. And it just doesn't with Dems, or at least not nearly as well. It's a different demographic....But the Internet does seem to work for Democrats. That was clear in the spectacular early success of the Dean campaign and now you're seeing it in smaller ways in individual House races. That doesn't mean that it won't work equally well for Republicans; we just don't know yet...