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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