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Friday, December 20, 2002

 

Disconnect: Dean's poll numbers vs. netroot support http://www.mydd.com/archives/000319.html#000319

posted by Aziz at Friday, December 20, 2002 permalink View blog reactions
Jerome has posted an entry to the MyDD weblog regarding the dis-connect with the polls, which show Dean at low single digits, and the fledging support that Dean is getting from the netroots of Democratic internet activists:

Howard Dean has been busy, there are a number of new posts on the Dean 2004 weblog. OK, so Dean is still polling 1-4% nationally, so what. Look at the netroots. Democrats.com has a weekly straw poll. Over the four weeks it's been done, with Gore included, Dean has finished a cumulative second. Here's where you go to sign up to vote.

Here's one of many Democratic Underground threads that have popped up in support of Dean since Gore has dropped out.


The comments section on the MyDD post has superb commentary and analysis. However, despite the strong support of the Internet political community, the Dean campaign has been strangely slow to get organized on the web. The DeanForAmerica website has a broken link for online contributions which is unforgivable considering how easy it is to accept donations online (as soon as the campaign gets its donations link fixed, we will add that link prominently to this weblog). And some users have commented that it takes weeks to get added to the campaign mailing list. One has to wonder if the campaign is even aware of the netroot support?

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