"Doddmania" (h/t Atrios) explodes

well, well, well... whaddaya know... evidently there are a lot of other folks besides moi who have been holding out for a presidential candidate who will step forward and speak out on the constitutional crisis...

from karen tumulty at time's swampland...

Senator Dodd's campaign communications director Hari Sevugan tells me that $150,000 in small contributions have poured into Dodd's campaign in the past 24 hours, since his announcement that he will put a hold on--and may even filibuster--a foreign intelligence surveillance bill approved yesterday by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Dodd objects to a provision that would grant immunity to the telecommunications companies that turned over their customers' phone and e-mail records to the government's warrantless surveillance program. The companies have been hit with 40 pending lawsuits charging them with privacy violation.

Dodd has raised more small-dollar contributions in the last 24 hours than he did in the previous month. Sevugan also says the number of visits to his website is up tenfold, as is the number of people registering their e-mail addresses there.

earlier, i wrote tim tagaris at the dodd campaign that i thought the senator was definitely on the right track, but that i would continue to hold out to see if the good senator is truly going to walk his talk... i've jumped at too many flashes in the pan over the past nearly seven years to start singing the hallelujah chorus quite yet...

(thanks to atrios...)

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