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March 01, 2004

WP on Dean campaign

Fascinating article in the Washington Post by Howard Kurtz about the dysfunctional nature of the Dean campaign organization. Reading it makes you realize that the notion that the campaign's infatuation with the Internet brought it down is a point of view that only someone infatuated with the Internet would propose. Far more destructive were the personal and organizational frictions caused by a small-town campaign suddenly going national.

Dean disputes the accuracy of the quotes in the article.

Posted at 10:11 AM | Email this entry | Category: Dean campaign
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Dean's dysfunctional "family"

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Trackback from Joho the Blog, Mar 1, 2004 10:17 AM

As I put it, the "Internet As God" idea when the campaign was riding high, leads to a mirror-image "Internet as Devil" idea when the campaign has crashed. Both can be wrong, in different directions, making the magnitude way too high and differing only on the sign.

Posted by Seth Finkelstein on March 1, 2004 06:05 PM | Permalink to Comment

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