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I've been rereading my 2004 election post-mortem. I'm reasonably pleased with how well it still stands. I'm very glad to have been wrong about the Democrats lurching to the right. For the most part, though, I don't think (with the beautiful exception that is the Obama campaign) that we've actually become that much smarter about the media. We've been facing a largely incompetent, corrupt, demoralized, completely out of touch opposition. With luck1 that will continue through 2010, but I don't want this to be a repeat of the Carter administration.
1: With real luck the GOP will spend a couple cycles divided, with the corporate conservatives fighting the social conservatives for control, maybe even calving off a couple (short-lived) new parties in the process.
1: With real luck the GOP will spend a couple cycles divided, with the corporate conservatives fighting the social conservatives for control, maybe even calving off a couple (short-lived) new parties in the process.
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I'm really interested in seeing how the Obama campaign social media savvy spreads (or doesn't) to the rest of the party. I know some of the people who worked on the Obama iphone app, and I'm thrilled that they built a system that turns campaigning for a candidate into a points-earning game. Maybe they learned from the successes and failures of Dean's campaign?
The Bus Project (http://busproject.org/) is another one to keep an eye on. They've managed to get people who would otherwise sit around talking to their same group of fellow city-dwelling liberal friends to campaign for progressive candidates in the rest of the state--essentially by turning campaign trips into a fun party.