January 30, 2004

Dean dot Bomb

By Gregory A. Collins
Howard Dean was for months touted as the first presidential candidate to harness the power of the Internet. Polls and expectations climbed as the media ran story after story about how the Dean campaign was revolutionizing the way campaigns were run and — most importantly — financed. Yet Dean was ditched by voters in Iowa and New Hampshire in favor of John Kerry, the very epitome of the anointed Democratic establishment whose weathered, lurch—like appearance underscored the image of a technologically—illiterate Neanderthal . Why did Dean go the same way as the tech stocks? The jettisoning by Dean of the much—hyped web guru Joe Trippi marked the end of the Dean Internet bubble.  Trippi was the mastermind behind the Dean campaign's internet strategy.  In a typical article late last year entitled 'Joe Trippi and the Dean Internet Revolution' (November, 2003 The New Republic , available only to subscribers) the admiring author explained that the...(Read Full Article)