A wired Dean is altering conduct of politics

[Mr_Bleedingheart]

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But the real power center of the Dean machine may be a crowded corner several steps from campaign corner several steps from campaign manager Joe Trippi’s office, where members of the 10-person Internet team stationed under a sign reading “Mission Control Dean” spout intelligible chatter about “cookie problems,” bandwidth and “simultaneous streams.”
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Back in December and January, Dean kept coming back from the campaign trail telling Trippi that he was frustrated by the amount of energy his campaign was generating and the inability to use it. He kept telling Trippi he wanted to run a "decentralized campaign."
"He didn't realize he was talking about the Internet," Trippi said, "but there were enough of us here , 'Hey, there's already a bunch of people out there that are trying to find out about Dean on the Net, so let's embrace that. . . . The rest is history."
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“Never before in my life have I been so politically energized as I am now," he added. "At 50 years old, feels like the good days back in college when there was fire in my heart."

http://www.postgazette.com/election/20031116deannet1116p2.asp

I love this article. This is exactly why Dean is kicking but, by the power of the Internet the campaign is getting people connected and motivated, and by using the meet-ups to get even more people involved.

[ACPS65]

1. Another hitpiece on Dean....

Can the Kerry supporters get any....oh wait, "wired"..

[wryter2000]

2. Yes, but...

I haven't read the article yet, but I will. Thanks. :hi: But the main point is that people out there were looking for Dean. They used the internet to capitalize on something that already existed. People wanted someone who understood that the whole system had been corrupted. Not this and that policy, but the whole system. People who wanted their country back!