Today's e-mail from the Dean campaign was cleverly titled "4 ways to help Dean win (...and we're not asking for money.)" Joe Trippi authored the e-mail and spoke about the following suggestion from personal experience:
4. Volunteer to travel to Iowa or New Hampshire
In 1979, I drove to Iowa to help change the country and it changed my life. The experience is amazing. If you’re able to sacrifice a week or take a long weekend to become part of our grassroots campaign in Iowa or New Hampshire for the final push in January, you’ll not only help win those states and change the country -- it will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Your presence on the ground in Iowa or New Hampshire during the final stretch will make the difference.
If this were Sesame Street we'd be playing "Which one of these doesn't belong." It's wonderful that Joe had such a character building moment, but how exactly did he "help change the country"? I can't believe Joe was out in Iowa campaigning for Reagan, the man who actually won in 1980.
X-Files moment: Is this a sign that the Dean campaign is trying to pass itself off for the "surging" Clark campaign by implying it also once supported republicans?
