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Kos is such an out of touch Bezerkeley moonbat you can almost pooh pooh him.

The good news is he is a defacto King of the Cyber Idiots meaning he directs tons of potential energy and money in a manner beneficial to the right. Just ask him how he did in 2004 with his losing candidates. He also advised the Dean campaign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Kos#Campaign_fundraising
During the 2004 U.S. Election, Daily Kos readers gave approximately $500,000 in user donations to fifteen Democratic candidates denoted as most needing of funds. The candidates were Tony Miller, Ben Konop, Dan Mongiardo, Richard Romero, Samara Barend, Jeff Seemann, Nancy Farmer, Ginny Schrader, Jan Schneider, Lois Murphy, Jim Newberry, Brad Carson, Tony Knowles, Stan Matsunaka and Richard Morrison. All of these candidates lost.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1546259/posts

There was another reason, though, why hundreds of thousands of liberals around the country found themselves addictively checking and rechecking Daily Kos as the 2004 election approached. It made them think Democrats were going to win. Moulitsas wasn't just posting any polls, he was selecting those that suggested Democrats—from John Kerry to congressional candidates—were heading for victory, while downplaying less encouraging signs. It left liberals trapped in a bubble of reassurance. Heading into the election, it would have been reasonable to assume from the evidence presented on Daily Kos that Kerry was the clear favorite to beat Bush, and that Democrats were likely to pick up seats in both houses of Congress. When none of these things happened, there was a sense of incomprehension. All of Kos's confident predictions had been wrong. “It's a valid criticism. Looking back, I was too optimistic,” Moulitsas told me. “[At] the beginning, I didn't even know what a margin of error was.”

Worse, Kos hadn't just fared poorly as an armchair quarterback—he'd been beaten on the field, too. In the Democratic primaries, he first backed Dean, then Wesley Clark. Both sparked grassroots excitement, but ultimately, of course, flamed out. Then, of the 13 Democratic candidates for Congress that Moulitsas handpicked for his readers to support—and for whom he raised over $500,000– not a single one prevailed.