Bombarded by repeated fundraising requests  

Dayna is right on the money (!) with this post/letter about Obama's fundraising strategy, particularly when you consider the various storylines about him running a different kind of campaign and being an outsider candidate. I've seen at least two articles comparing his online strategy with Howard Dean's, but from what I've seen -- fundraising spam galore ever since he announced -- Dayna's comparison with the Kerry campaign is way more apt. I should say also that I've sent more than one unanswered email inquiring about how to get involved in the campaign.

It's interesting that the much-lauded Dean model of eschewing traditional hierarchical campaign structures seems to be dead. Or maybe we're too far out from the election to see a lot of grassroots agitating?