In fairness, Howard Dean, in the 2002-3 camapaign used the web far ahead of the curve.

He had blogs and alerts and forums (fora). They actually had a bunch of very innovative SW writers incl. one college student who did an effort to "let good ideas Bubble up" from the larger community, for attention of the campaign. This sounds like running the campaign by polls, but it's not. Polls ask pre determined questions, Dean for America used the online discussions to distill the insights - things the campaign did NOT think of, but might want to think on.

Sounds like something we should be doing, hmm?

Fred Fleming

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