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...insurgent has more room in a field as large as this one, in which no true front runner has yet emerged to marshal the party's institutional forces. Dean's outsider appeal has made all the other first-tier contenders blend into button-down sameness. Campaign manager Joe Trippi, 47, a veteran of six presidential races whose bare-knuckled style matches his candidate's, argues that the early focus on one upstart--which usually doesn't happen until January--has created "the strongest insurgency in the history of politics." Trippi also argues that the converse is true: "Whoever becomes...
Dean's chain of websites, run mainly by tech-savvy campaign manager Joe Trippi and the campaign's four Internet-dedicated staff members, has a sense of fun that rivals old-time political carnivals. You can download the Dean Techno Dance Mix of one of his speeches from dean2004.blogspot.com howarddean.tv offers Dean appearances delivered to your desktop. Then there is blogforamerica.com (blog is short for weblog), a candid daily journal updated by staffers from wherever Dean happens to be. Communications director Kate O'Connor was reluctant to file to the blog at first, but her entry writing--sprinkled with exclamation...
...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...
...just a boutique fund-raising tool or one that can generate actual votes. Whatever the ultimate verdict, Dean has already shown there is more than one way to reach supporters. The power of the Internet in political campaigning is "going to take away television's total dominance," says Trippi. So stay tuned. Or, rather, log on. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr./Iowa and James Carney/Washington
...this nation have to understand that they are American corporations, and they've got to start investing more money here for a change, and creating more jobs here for a change." In the shoot-out on the Southern airwaves, Gephardt was simply outgunned and outmaneuvered by Gore. As Joe Trippi, a top Gephardt adviser put it, "It was like there were two televisions, and ours got turned off and their volume got turned...