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Bruce Reed and Al From, leaders of the DLC that attacked Governor Dean’s supporters for being “activist elites” last quarter, now write an op-ed in today’s LA Times: Activists Are Out of Step Real Democrats aren’t ideologues. They don’t vote to make a statement; they vote hoping to get things done. They want social progress,…

Ooh! A Google whack to call my own: the “clue primary”. (For you purists, I realize that a real Google-whack has just two words and doesn’t use quotes. Whatever – you get the idea.) Here’s the thing: by all accounts this presidential campaign is different. There are some campaigns who have a clue, and there…

Welcome to the many readers of Salon.com who are showing up here after reading Farhad Manjoo’s article Blogland’s Man of the People about the Dean campaign and the blogosphere. Since I do quite a bit of writing too, I know there’s a ton of angles on the story that Farhad wanted to address (and we…

Garry Trudeau is my hero: (c)2003 Garry Trudeau (In the interest of full disclosure: Trudeau is a classmate of Governor Dean’s and a long-time friend who’s given his $2,000 limit.)

By all measures, this is a stunning development in the Democratic race. I documented how they pulled it off here – it really is something to behold. Some interesting statistics from today: 9,011 first-time donors today 2,000 repeat donors Average contribution of $66.85 Once matching funds come in, the $7.1m raised this quarter could easily…

Does the Internet matter? Is one voice still capable of being heard in the Clear Channel era? Yes and Yes. Tonight, Joe Trippi (campaign manager for the Dean for President campaign) announced that the campaign has raised over $7 million in the second quarter. Is this a big deal? Yes. Governor Dean raised $2.6 million…

That the Dean campaign would chalk up another first probably shouldn’t surprise anyone any more; but just in case: Governor Dean just made the first audio blog post by a Presidential candidate. AudBlog is a cool service — dial a number from your cell phone, leave a message and AudBlog posts the audio as an…

The latest entrant in the pile? Arter & Hadden, a 300 lawyer law firm in Cleveland, OH that sent this memo out last Friday: Unfortunately, we must now report that efforts to obtain the additional financing and required concessions from Arter & Hadden’s landlords to continue the law firm have been unsuccessful. As a result,…

Today is a truly historic day. After announcing they’d exceeded $6 million on Saturday night, the campaign raised another $300,000 yesterday and is striving to hit $7 million today. You can watch the progress in real time by going to the campaign blog and looking at the bat. As of 10 minutes ago, we were…

photo by Joe DeCock More than 60 people marched in Chicago’s PRIDE parade yesterday. Thanks to Joe for sending this picture in of those who marched.