Score one for the blogger over the journalist: Via Blog P.I.’s Higgins, Katherine Harris’ top campaign staff is apparently quitting, as first reported by NoVa-based teenage blogger Vince Harris this afternoon. Not unlike a regional version of the much-linked conservative video-blogger Ian Schwartz (was: The Political Teen, now: Expose the Left), one of the top 100-linked bloggers according to veteran link-counter Truth Laid Bear, and by the way also under the drinking age.
As for the hopeless Katherine Harris, the newspapers have yet to report on the shakeup this evening, and the defections might not be over. Blog PI’s former colleague Marc Ambinder seconded the story a few hours later — on The Hotline’s blog, of course. And he updated later with a release from Harris’ office confirming in part but still denying the alleged exodus.
On the activist right, Red State regular commenter E Pluribus Unum gets off the bus first:
I have been previously supporting her, in the face of many obstacles (poll numbers not the least among them). At this point it seems untenable, and I must join the crowd at RS. And I must say, the gathering rumors from the inside of someone ‘difficult to work for’ — which if true, REALLY burns my citizen-legislator-loving cookies. I don’t care to root for a GOP version of Sheila Jackson Lee, the most obnoxious person in Washington.
Expect to see a lot more of this reaction from the right-blogosphere.
The definitive grave dance as of the moment is Alex Pareene’s. And Google seems to agree: If you Googled “Katherine Harris” at about 10:00 p.m. EDT you first would have seen the just-in-time chain of content delivery from Wonkette to Yahoo! News to Google News to Google’s primary search results:

P.S. The Bradenton Herald confirms, but doesn’t credit V. Harris (or anybody else).
Update, 7/14: OK, her career in Republican politics is over.







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