The last top-down campaign  

From Joe Trippi in -- appropriately enough -- an IM interview:

Well, the Clinton campaign is the last top-down campaign on our side -- and it is the best top-down campaign of all time. The Obama campaign is only the second bottom-up campaign in history -- and it is stronger than the Clinton campaign both in money and organization. It is the reason Obama destroys Clinton in caucus states. The Dean campaign, when I think of it now, it seems to me we were the Wright brothers proving you could design something no one had seen before and that you could actually fly in politics coming from the bottom up and using new ways to communicate. Four years later, win or lose, the Obama campaign is landing a man on the moon.