Word: trippiness
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...wanted to lead an army, Joe Trippi wouldn't be the first person you'd think of to run it. Maybe it is his style, or lack of it. He would shuffle about in worn-out shoes, wrinkled pants and ensembles that never matched, armed at all times with a Diet Coke and a vocal, if rambling, opinion. Howard Dean's campaign manager doesn't seem to go an hour without talking to a reporter, and for weeks wore a microphone around-the-clock for a documentary on him that was scheduled to air on CNN this spring...
...Trippi, a veteran political strategist who had previously worked on a number of losing presidential campaigns, who came up with many of the ideas that gave the Dean campaign its pizazz, back before everyone else copied them: blogs, house parties and Meetups, as well as a Web tool called Get Local that allows people to set up campaign events in their communities. All of that helped give Democrats from all over the country the power to elevate from obscurity the former Governor of tiny Vermont. Political operatives from everywhere traveled to Burlington, Vt., to hear the good news from...
...Dean campaign will now have to go on without him. After disappointing losses in Iowa and New Hampshire, and with his campaign almost broke, Dean sacked Trippi last week as part of a staff shake-up that is meant to centralize an operation once proud of letting a thousand volunteers bloom...
...votes ... and our guys acted as if he had a mandate. And the result is the most radical President we've had." Voting with the G.O.P. 80% of the time is no way for an opposition party to behave. "You can't accommodate them," argues Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi. "You're either with them or against them...
There is, however, another statistic that may put the Dean phenomenon in perspective. On Sept. 30, Dean had approximately 452,000 Internet supporters. Trippi said the goal was a million by the end of the year. Last week they had only 515,000. The New-New movement may have reached a plateau. Then again, doctors have been known to change their diagnoses. The devotion of his followers gives Dean the leeway to take the movement in any direction he wants. One can only wonder what the next New-New thing will...