Speaking of power to the people, I've also been meaning to link to this Kos piece (and the fascinating Ari Berman piece it references) praising Howard Dean's DNC strategy and labeling Barack Obama "Dean 2.0" with his respect to his inclusive campaign and 50-state strategy. Setting aside anecdotal observations of the Obama campaign (on the one hand, I've known a couple folks in Illinois who have hosted Obama fundraisers at their homes, but on the other I've complained in the past that emails to the campaign asking how to get involved went unanswered) I don't have a lot of insight into how things are organized, so I don't really have any comment on the "Dean 2.0" characterization, but I think viewing the DNC strategy as an outgrowth of Dean's 2004 organization seems right on the money, and it looks like Dean was perfectly positioned to expand on his considerable demonstrated organizational strengths. I was not a Dean supporter myself, but here's a long post I wrote in 2004 about his campaign organization.
It's interesting that Daniel Biss's fundraising strategy seems to echo (albeit even more explicitly) the Dean and Obama approaches.
And I also want to link to this piece on Joe Trippi's proposal in his unsuccessful interview with the Clinton campaign.
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