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June 07, 2003
Meetup!
I promised I'd post about the Dean meetup a while ago. It was very exciting, with a good mix of about 80 people. These people are determined to win, and from the ground up. It's kind of the exact opposite of the McGovern strategy.
A quick history lesson: McGovern was in charge of a committee that completely revamped the Democratic nominating process in the late '60's and early '70's. As such, he was the only candidate with an intricate knowledge of the new primary process and used it to his advantage against lesser organized candidates.
The Dean people, as I said, seem to be doing the exact opposite. It's highly de-centralized. Activists on the ground are learning as much as they can about the counties and states they're from and working to take them over from the inside. If Dean wins, which is still a longshot at this moment, I don't think he'll even know the half of the story of how it happened.
Like I said, it was exciting. You can track Dean's Georgia campaign here. And you can see the video of the CNN Inside Politics that yours truly was interviewed on here.
Posted by Chris at June 7, 2003 10:30 PM
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