Reply #41: Thing is... [View All]

...nomination or no, the Dean campaign has already influenced, and perhaps changed completely, the tenor and cadence of the 2004 elections. The people getting involved now are REALLY angry at Bush, and they aren't likely to just stop being angry. Before this "snowball" started, it was all about Lieberman style triangulation of Bush and "giving in to his strengths" while gently exploiting the base while pandering to the middle, or some such. Now we've got an almost daily hammering of the Bush regime, we're no longer just 10% of the population that think he sucks, we're a majority that thinks he's taking this nation in a dramatically wrong direction.

I remember being a 10 percenter, it's good to be able to dissent and breathe again. We're too numerous and diverse and spread out to present an easy target, and we've got to stay that way...