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President Obama called on a reporter from the Huffington Post in his first news conference, raising the status of “bloggers” to main stream media status and confirming the theory of many that the Huffington Post had played a large part in President Obama's political success.

Big Texas Democratic funders such as John Thornton are gathering millions of dollars to invest in Evan Smith's new project, the Texas Tribune, under the theory that the Texas Tribune will play a large part in the Texas Demoratic party's come back.

Arianna Huffington and the Huffington Post