Super Bowl Day. Pats against Cats. New England against Carolina. North against South. Kerry against Edwards. But while the southern pretender will be cheering the panthers and gladhanding the local fans at Super Bowl parties at two popular Charleston sports bars, Kerry will be watching from Fargo, North Dakota, before heading to New Mexico later this evening.
Maybe it had something to do with Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady being George Bush's special guest at the State of the Union...
The Dean campaign is feeling decidely less than super, since it's quickly running out of cash. A scenario almost unthinkable a couple of months ago, as almost every story written about the campaign was fawning over its remarkable success at raising cash on the internet, vindicating the decision to reject federal matching funds.
Meanwhile, the inevitable post-mortems on Dean's failure to win in Iowa and New Hampshire are asking whether the internet has truly changed the nature of political campaigning.
Two short, simplistic answers - firstly, it was mainly because of the internet that Dean got to play on the big stage at all, and secondly, his shortcomings were nothing to do with the technology; but those shortcomings were amplified and perpetuated by the very technology that had given him a ticket to the dance.
A key question is whether the "Deaniacs", the young voters galvanised by the Dean campaign into becoming politically active for the first time, will remain engaged with the process.
For Dean, and the other candidates seeking to put a roadblock in Kerry's increasingly relentless path to the nomination, the strategy now seems to be picking specific battlegrounds in the hope of preventing a sweep by the Massachusetts senator.
Maybe it had something to do with Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady being George Bush's special guest at the State of the Union...
The Dean campaign is feeling decidely less than super, since it's quickly running out of cash. A scenario almost unthinkable a couple of months ago, as almost every story written about the campaign was fawning over its remarkable success at raising cash on the internet, vindicating the decision to reject federal matching funds.
Meanwhile, the inevitable post-mortems on Dean's failure to win in Iowa and New Hampshire are asking whether the internet has truly changed the nature of political campaigning.
Two short, simplistic answers - firstly, it was mainly because of the internet that Dean got to play on the big stage at all, and secondly, his shortcomings were nothing to do with the technology; but those shortcomings were amplified and perpetuated by the very technology that had given him a ticket to the dance.
A key question is whether the "Deaniacs", the young voters galvanised by the Dean campaign into becoming politically active for the first time, will remain engaged with the process.
For Dean, and the other candidates seeking to put a roadblock in Kerry's increasingly relentless path to the nomination, the strategy now seems to be picking specific battlegrounds in the hope of preventing a sweep by the Massachusetts senator.
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