Promoted from the diaries. This, along with the excellent comments, is one of the best things I've ever read on dKos. I'd been thinking for some time about writing a piece on the danger of relying on 527s -- but Susan covered a good bit of what I'd hoped to address. --Trapper.
In mid-February two top employees of the Kerry campaign were calling me daily for a week interested in what I had learned as a grassroots organizer for Dean, and were considering hiring me.
Today's NYT Magazine article by Matt Bai "Who Lost Ohio?" suggests some lessons learned by Dean grassroots organizers could have been crucial, but the Kerry campaign turned a deaf ear. The article also confirms a fear I wrote about on Kos in late February that relying on 527s could be dangerous.
In mid-February two top employees of the Kerry campaign were calling me daily for a week interested in what I had learned as a grassroots organizer for Dean, and were considering hiring me.
Today's NYT Magazine article by Matt Bai "Who Lost Ohio?" suggests some lessons learned by Dean grassroots organizers could have been crucial, but the Kerry campaign turned a deaf ear. The article also confirms a fear I wrote about on Kos in late February that relying on 527s could be dangerous.