I’m up in Burlington Vermont at the Dean campaign headquarters today, visiting the very hospitable Matt Gross and friends. Great folks! Lots and lots of cool ideas and fresh energy.
Meanwhile, the mainstream is catching on..
Today’s copy of The Hill, the insider newspaper read in Washington by politicos, has a piece on grassroots movements affecting congressional votes, that focuses heavily on MoveOn as well as on the use of the web by organized labor. The article cites Larry Purpuro, who led the Republican e.GOP project in 2000:
“A few of them will get their clocks cleaned in 2004,” said Larry Purpuro, former deputy chief of staff at the Republican National Committee, referring to politicians too unimaginative to adapt to the Internet.
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a front page piece on blogging and politics, featuring the Dean campaign. The WSJ article is kind of a lagging indicator–on the other hand, it shows how much mainstream attention the movement of information technology and politics is starting to generate–as it leds to more and more visible successes for early adopter campaigns like Dean’s. Sorry, this link to the WSJ requires–guess what–a subscription!
