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Politics and Pop Culture.
And occasionally informative, amusing, or bizzare non sequiturs.
Matt's in charge here, others can post.
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wFriday, May 16, 2003 |
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Interview with Howard Dean, by Sandeep KaushikI’ve been calling around to various political players. I was talking to [Democratic strategist] Donna Brazile about the 2000 campaign. She has this hard-eyed realism about how political campaigns should run: “It takes money, and organization, but ultimately money because money buys the organization.”
We’re building an organization which doesn’t require anything close to the amount of money she would need. I’ll give you a perfect example: I went down to Houston to give a speech a few weeks ago. Thirty people showed up at the convention center. The other guy who was on the program didn’t have any. Those things make a difference, and that’s all free—it doesn’t cost us anything. Those were Houston volunteers. I went to a fundraiser one time and about half the people were the Democratic fundraising types—we didn’t know the rest. One person came up and said, “Hi, I’m your Texas coordinator.” I didn’t know we had a Texas coordinator. We have people who are totally volunteers, even in Texas, for us. It is a highly motivated group of people. Imagine being neck and neck in New Hampshire, where the guy’s got four times as much money as you do.
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Matthew Carroll-Schmidt at 3:30 PM
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