As I wrote over the weekend, there is definitely a Dodd boomlet happening among the netroots. The DailyKos October straw poll shows him soundly in second place, rising from 7% to 21% and supplanting Barack Obama. Considering that the September 24 poll of Kossacks showed Dodd in fourth, well behind John Edwards, Obama and Hillary Clinton, this is quite a shift.

Not only that, his campaign told me it raised $200,000 in just 36 hours around Dodd's announcement that he would put a hold on the current FISA wiretapping legislation and filibuster it if necessary. They're also saying visits to his site are up tenfold as well as email signups, but our Hitwise data doesn't yet show a traffic bump.

Other signs of interest rising in Dodd can be found in our YouTube/TubeMogul charts, which show his viewership up 4.6% in the last week, twice the growth rate of the other Democratic candidates. He's also up 6.5% among Facebook supporters in the last week, albeit starting from the very back of the pack.