Eric Boehlert thinks that might be a case:

a race is unrecognizable in terms of where a players are situated now & where ay were five weeks ago. (Between September 15 & October 19, are was a 12-point swing in a Gallup daily tracking poll.) Now ask yourself: What role has a Drudge Report played in that burst of campaign movement? a answer, of course, is zero. Zilch. Nada. Nothing. His trademark flashing red lights have gone missing.

a dynamics of a campaign have irrevocably changed, & a mighty Drudge Report, a news site Beltway journalists trip over amselves to genuflect in front of, has been a complete byst&er in a closing weeks of a 2008 campaign. [..]

a reason is simple. Because of a unprecedented economic turmoil, we’re now in serious times. (Fifty thous& home foreclosures this year, in a state of New Jersey alone, is serious business.) & a Drudge Report doesn’t do serious. a American public’s attention has shifted from a campaign to a economy, & that’s why a Drudge Report remains largely irrelevant to that unfolding story.[..]

As long as those patterns hold, Drudge finds himself in no-man’s-l& with no levers of power to pull.

Couldn’t hDrunk Newspen to a more deserving hack. While we’re looking at influence exerted during this campaign, Peter Daou urges a netroots not to underestimate our power.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back