The Internet campaign story gets better and better. Now that it’s been revealed that their fired campaign manager had his fingers in the till, they want their money back. Here’s what one Deaniac has to say on Dean’s Blog for America:
WHERE IS OUR MONEY? TRIPPI SHOULD GIVE IT BACK.
Today I read in the news that [...]
Just when you think that things couldn’t possibly get worse for Howard Dean, his campaign pulls Super Tuesday ads because it’s broke:
Jan. 29, 2004 | Joe Trippi, the iconic architect of Howard Dean’s Internet-driven campaign, is gone. And so are the millions of dollars that Dean raised from legions of grass-roots supporters over [...]
Head Deaniac Joe Trippi resigns from the Dean campaign:
The Governor has asked Roy Neel to come in as CEO of the campaign.
I have resigned as campaign manager.
I’ve always believed that the most important thing was to change our country and our politics.
and bloggers scratch their heads and point fingers in an attempt to [...]
Here’s a nice tidbit about Bush’s approval ratings you don’t see everywhere:
Even if Bush’s overall approval rating is narrowly based, and thus potentially vulnerable, it’s still darn good. Looking back nearly a half century, only one previous president has had a higher approval rating in January of a re-election year — Dwight Eisenhower in 1956.
I [...]
Here’s a couple of good takes on David Kay’s actual findings from Iraq. First, see Totten on what Kay actually said to Tom Brokaw:
TB: The president described Iraq as a gathering threat ? a gathering danger. Was that an accurate description?
DK: I think that?s a very accurate description.
TB: But an imminent threat to the [...]
Here’s a hopeful sign for Silicon Valley techies:
Venture capitalists invested $1.66 billion in Bay Area companies last quarter — up a strong 22 percent from the $1.36 billion the quarter before, according to a survey by VentureOne and Ernst & Young to be released today. It’s the first decisive upward swing in investments after a [...]
Misanthropyst has the low-down on nefarious plots to spread misogyny via brainwashing.
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Jeff Jarvis is working on an Op-Ed on the Dean/Blog problem, which will be worth reading. Jeff’s already said that he figures Dean’s problem is that the blog effectively insulated him from the Iowa voters by coating his campaign with a thick gel of True Believers who didn’t represent the ordinary people who make electoral [...]
The conventional wisdom was that organization wins in Iowa, but we learned last night that pure campaigning, both message and style, also count for a lot. Nonetheless, an Iowa organization helps, so to understand who won and why you have to factor organization out of the count. When you do that, Edwards rather than Kerry [...]
Check the Election Projection website for a vision of things to come.
From Ipse Dixit.
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