Small Point

But I just got an email from Feingold's Progressive Patriot PAC, and at the bottom, as a throwaway, they added the line "Funny story about Russ in The Onion.

Obviously staffers make these blast emails, but just the fact that they find a story in The Onion and send it on shows a certain cool factor. Ya think "check out this vicious parody of me" gets tacked on to the back of Dubya's emails? Brownback's? McCain's? In fact, the article was about McCain and Feingold: "McCain, Feingold Co-Sponsor Chain Of Integrity-Themed Eateries." This doesn't mean much, but it's not on McCain's Senate site or his Straight Talk America PAC site.

I don't get McCain's emails, so he might have added it there. And it doesn't really matter if he did or didn't. My point is that Russ Feingold, or his people, or whoever, understand that there's a resonance to saying "Hey, check this Onion article" out. It's retail politics for the Internet generation. The LA Times ran an article on Sunday about how the GOP has a major technological advantage over the Democrats (it wasn't exactly sourced, but it's in line with other things I've read). Little targeted things like this move by Feingold suggest that the Dems are maybe getting the message.