Huh? The Governor of Michigan is a member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front?
These are the times that try men's souls.
I hardly watch TV, so the only Dean ad I remember seeing is one that blogforamerica.com linked to shortly after NH. The ad made a big deal about Dean's courage in being anti-Bush before being anti-Bush was cool. I agree that this is a major, major point in Dean's favor, but it doesn't really address the "electable" question.
Yesterday afternoon, the blog posted excerpts from what it described as "a defining speech in Seattle", which goes for something like 20 paragraphs slamming the other Democrats before saying anything about Dean's record, which is the best answer to the "electable" question.
I really really like Dean -- especially in comparison to Kerry -- I assume some people in Massachusetts actually like Kerry, but I've never met one of them -- but I'm concerned that the Dean campaign, which was one step ahead of its critics last year (just a bunch of weenies on the Internet? look at how much money we raised! outside the Democratic mainstream? look at all these endorsements!), has gotten into a rut w.r.t. its message.
Nancy, Katherine: When you tried to convince people to vote for Dean, and they gave reasons why they would be more comfortable voting for someone else, did that information get collected and used by the higher levels of the Dean campaign ... e.g., in deciding what message to focus on in the next round of TV ads?
On the other hand, Jonathan Cohn at TNR seems to be saying the exact opposite...
Perhaps Diebold is using a relational database because their programmers have joined the sinister death cult.
Oh, sure, some guy with a weblog says his weblog saved him from a nutcase girlfriend, and you all just believe him? Sheesh.
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