{"id":3337,"date":"2005-06-09T15:08:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T23:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/09\/poor-dr-dean\/"},"modified":"2005-06-09T15:08:19","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T23:08:19","slug":"poor-dr-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/09\/poor-dr-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Dr. Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tHoward Dean doesn’t have a friend in the world. Now Susan Estrich, that paragon of moderation<\/a>, has taken to dissing his famous website:<\/a><\/p>\n

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At the time Dean pulled out of the race in 2004, his much-vaunted website was getting one-tenth as many hits as George Bush’s. Even more important, the Bush team, under the leadership of then-Rove deputy Ken Mehlman, was embarked on a sophisticated technological project that allowed it to communicate with voters in key states and key groups the same way Amazon does with regular purchasers: Understanding more than name, address and serial number, Amazon knows what I like, and what my family likes, and what other people like me like, so that when they write to me, they know how to sell to me. So did Bush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Didn’t the Moveon.org faction of the Democratic Party secure his party leadership on the strength of his grasp of technology and fund-raising? It looks like they were wrong again.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Howard Dean doesn’t have a friend in the world. Now Susan Estrich, that paragon of moderation, has taken to dissing his famous website: At the time Dean pulled out of the race in 2004, his much-vaunted website was getting one-tenth as many hits as George Bush’s. Even more important, the Bush team, under the leadership … Continue reading “Poor Dr. Dean”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-RP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}