[lbo-talk] Dean: transformative?

[Shane Taylor]

> Washington Post - October 20, 2003
>
> Analysis
> Dean Sparks Debate On His Potential To Remold Party
> Despite Successes, Some Fear General Election Rout
>
> By Thomas B. Edsall
>
> Howard Dean's success raising money and mobilizing
> voters has provoked a growing debate among
> Democratic and Republican strategists over whether
> the former Vermont governor has the potential to become
> a "transformative" political figure, altering, for better or
> worse, the financial and constituent base of the
> Democratic Party.


> Dean and his manager, Joe Trippi, do not hide their
> assertion that the flood tide of support flowing into
> their insurgent campaign, much of it through the
> Internet, signals no less than a sea change in traditional
> Democratic campaigning.

I was at a local meeting of people organizing for Dean this weekend. 
Transforming the party was an explicit and widely shared goal.  There was
serious interest in seizing as many precinct positions as possible within
the party and renovating it.  Granted, it was largely about escaping
"special interests" and such, but it still seemed encouraging.

-- Shane

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