Web Site Helps Candidates Recruit Armies of Supporters Online

By Anonymous -
ABC has posted an article about how the Dean campaign has been benefiting from meetup.com. It's not particularly new news to many of you who are frequent readers, but it is interesting to see the media take note of just how dramatic the online grassroots effort has been in helping the Dean campaign.

How did former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who just months ago was expected to raise well under $1 million during the first quarter of 2003, manage to find enough donors to amass a war chest of more than $2.6 million?

Part of the answer is simple: They Metup for him.
And the eight other Democratic presidential campaigns are watching closely.

Dean's staff took advantage of a new Web site, Meetup.com, which allows users to collaborate about fund-raising, appearances and grass-roots campaigning for the candidate of their choice. With a few clicks, visitors can sign up for information about their candidates and invite themselves to campaign parties in any of more than 480 cities.

Its founder, Myles Weissleder, sees the site's launch as an epochal event.

"Meetup.com is turning democracy and politics on its head, providing a platform for people with similar interests to meet and a fantastic way to mobilize people," he said.

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