Word: meetup
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...Dean's lack of a broad policy vision hasn't bothered his growing army of supporters, who like to say they know everything they need to about him. "He's not a lifelong politician," says Sebastian Mianab, 31, a homebuilder who attended a Dean Meetup earlier this month in Dallas. "He's an outsider, and he speaks his mind." The problem is that more people are listening now, and they don't just want to know what he would do to Bush. They want to know what he would do for them. --With reporting by Matthew Cooper and John...
...radical liberals. They are defined by their opposition to the war. They are militant on most civil rights and civil-liberties issues, especially support for gay rights and opposition to the Patriot Act. They are overwhelmingly secular. Indeed, they seem to have replaced religion with cybercommunity; the monthly Meetup is their church. One of the strangest but most telling passages in Dean's recent stump speeches comes when he indulges in a romantic vision of 1968--a terrible year when America seemed to be falling apart but a time he remembers fondly as a moment of misty social communion. That...
...Vermonter got to where he is today by being a rebel, a straight talker. He revolutionized campaigning online, reaching new voters through blogs and meetup groups. Union endorsements and campaign coffers stuffed to the brim don?t fit the image. The last thing he wants to do is turn off his most loyal supporters by letting them think he?s just another politician. So instead of holding a focus group to find out whether his fans will stomach his opting out of federal financing, he?s taking the question directly to the masses. As John McCain?s 2000 strategist Mike...
...their senses and realize that this antiwar one-noter from liberal Vermont was out of synch with the politics of a post-9/11 world. And what about the Internet-driven rabble that packs his events, those 68,000 who have signed up for yet another of Dean's "Meetup" events at 340 spots across the country this Wednesday? Too young, too alienated, too inchoate to matter...
Here's how it works: Last Wednesday those 55,000 Dean supporters were directed by Meetup to go to 310 locations across the U.S. at 7 p.m. local time. There they were each given the addresses of three undecided Democrats in Iowa and asked to send handwritten letters to them. Campaigns are charged $2,500 for the service, a deal referred to by Meetup's founders as the Trippi special. Dean is by far the most popular candidate on Meetup, with Kerry a distant second...