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Preach on:

"People-power" doesn't mean you sit around waiting for others to do the hard work. It means you do it yourself. The DCCC is helping candidates like Paul Hodes, Larry Kissel, Tim Walz and Vic Wulsin not because the candidates and their supporters sat around whining about lack of support. They got support because they built strong campaigns.

Same with bloggers. We don't hop aboard candidate bandwagons based on which candidate whines the most, or which supporters ratch up the whine factor the highest. Bloggers like me get excited when local activists get excited. I may have been the first blogger to mention Jon Tester's name back in late 2004, but I did so because local, on-the-ground activists could hardly contain themselves at the possibility that Tester would join the Senate race. That's what gets me jazzed up[...]

So bottom line, worry about your own corner of the world. Don't expect others to care. Think long-term. Help build the infrastructure that will improve your party's chances in the long-haul, not just the next election. And if you do your job right, and others along with you, then people will notice. Whining, on the other hand, won't get you anywhere.