Inside the Blog Campaign - Page 2

What a card that Dean is! Some of these posts are fairly amusing but others are so over the top. For New Years there was the promise of conference call by Dean and Al Gore. Nothing says New Years like a conference call. Now that’s excitement you can cut with a large knife.

But it isn't only Howard Dean's campaign that is blogging. Wesley Clark has one too. On Clark's blog which is updated less frequently than Dean's, you can find everything from announcements about Clark's first grandson being born to how many Dean supporters are joining the Clark team every day. Most interesting, was a post entitled, "Beating the spit out of Tom DeLay." It would be hard to imagine any campaign literature in the past vowing to beat up the Republican House Leader. But that's the fun of blogging isn't it?

Over at John Kerry's campaign blog there is a regular feature called, "What Would Bush Learn If He Read the Paper Today?" But mostly Kerry's blog is ground zero for shameless positivity. Staffer Dick Bell posts, "If you've been reading the blog, you know that there's been a political sea change in the last few weeks: the press is positive, rallies are rowdier, and John is coming on strong in Iowa and New Hampshire." Never mind the reality that shows Kerry losing ground rather than gaining it.

But that is what is interesting about the campaign blog. Inside the blog, inside the campaign office exists a perpetual state of optimism. That existed before the invention of the blog, and certainly before the Internet. You see if you ever truly conceded you wouldn't be able to get anyone to put up lawn signs or go door-to-door you would stop running and since no one has cast a ballot, no campaign is facing that reality quite yet. The Blog is a perfect medium and forum for keeping the insiders pumped up however removed from reality that message may be.

Joe Lieberman blogs. Here you'll find relevant information about the USA Today poll on replacing the image of FDR on the dime with Ronald Reagan. Courtesy Joe Lieberman, we’ve stumbled upon the big issue of the 2004 election, the image on the dime. This may be why with such precious little time remaining before New Hampshire's primary Joe is asking for supporters to "play James Carville - tell us what you would do if you were in charge, to help put Joe over the finish line." A good reality show, yes. A good way of running a successful campaign, not so much.

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