2004 Presidential Election
Update 5:26PM: The Washington Post is asking What will happen when a national political machine can fit on a laptop?. From the article, "Coase's insight was this: The cost of gathering information determines the size of organizations." Here's a link to an article by Yochai Benkler titled, Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm. Benkler celebrates Open Source communities.
Here's an in-depth piece looking at Howard Dean's campaign from the Denver Post [December 14, 2003, "Dean camp asks doubting Dems to take leap of faith"]. From the article, "The Pew poll showed that almost half of Dean supporters in Iowa are college graduates, and twice as many describe themselves as liberal than conservative. Almost 70 percent rate their personal financial situation as "good" or "excellent." Just 11 percent of his supporters belonged to labor unions. Gephardt, who has been running neck and neck with Dean in Iowa, is far more popular among voters who have a high school education, union members, conservatives, and those who are more worried about their family's economic futures."
Walter Cronkite writes about the battle for the Democratic Presidential nomination in his column in Sunday's Denver Post [December 14, 2003, "Democrats are wasting time"]. Says Cronkite, "Instead of waiting until its platform committee meets next year, the Democrats could be using these primary months to define their basic philosophy. As it is, time and money are being wasted as the primary candidates emphasize a serious split in the party. There are those Democrats who believe the party's strength is its appeal to the farmer-labor vote. These, whom we might call the Old Democrats, include Gephardt and Dennis Kucinich. Others believe the party's strength is the vast middle class to whom Bill Clinton so successfully appealed, or the New Democrats. They include Joe Lieberman, John Kerry and John Edwards. So the issue is: Do the Democrats maintain the Clinton focus on middle-class voters or go back to the farmer-labor-oriented policies of FDR and Truman?"
Here's a recent Boston Globe and WBZ-TV poll for New Hampshire in the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. The news is bad for John Kerry. Howard Dean is leading by 23 points. Thanks to the Daily Kos for the link.
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