Fun while it lasted
Up until last week, the presidential nomination contest had been
nothing short of a blast to watch, full of vim, vigor and an air of
serendipity. But now as the outcome becomes more predictable, I've
begun to relapse into my native journalistic cynicism.
While Dean was alive, shocks of electricity were felt by anyone
within viewing range of the phenomenon, not only for the candidate's
obvious quirks, but for the fact that Dean's means of financing really
did hold the promise of minimizing the influence of the corporate
lobbies. I mean, this really was people power!
Conventional wisdom now holds that the Dean people mistook their
process for the message, but that was no mistake. They simply didn't
package their message well enough. Then Kerry and Edwards took that
message (without the substance yielded by real-people financing) and
tied it up much more neatly and handily than the Dean folks ever tried
to do, and the r...
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