[Ken522]

This needs a "Gag Alert" or something similar.

[Semper Paratus]

Dean seems to be tapping into a seam of online middle-class resentment.

Do these people know what Dean's tax policy will do to their take home pay?

[SwinneySwitch]

"Dean may not have Gephardt's solid union support, but he is assembling a different kind of volunteer force, one made up of passionate and often disgruntled believers."

Deans support reminds me of George McGovern's in '72. They can take the demonrat primary, but will lose big time in the general election!

[Jhoffa_]

Oh whatever!

Dean's a nutcase that will be selling colidal silver by december of next year.

I don't give a crap how much he's raised, it's not enough to offset his crazy notions and general scaryness.

[Republican Wildcat]

He's winning the web? That's not quite the same as the Electoral College.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"I don't think average Joes are on the Internet using their credit cards to give you $25," scoffs Gephardt campaign official Steve Elmendorf.

The Internet is a middle class, not a lower class, phenomenon. Since the Democrats appeal to everyone who does not consider themselves middle class--either "poor" or "got-mine-Jack" elite--the Internet is more of a natural tool for the party of the middle class, the Republicans.

But of course all that is relative--the Republicans attract a majority of the middle class, the Democrats attract a majority of the rich--and a large majority of "the poor." So apparently the sort of middle class person who will be a Democrat inclines to favor Dean.

[weegee]

Online polls are a joke, they are not scientific and are easily biased by those who would DUpe them.

[lawdude]

Someone should ask the good Doctor if he gets a perverse kick out of hearing the sound made by sucking the brains out of a viable fetus during an abortion.

[GOPJ]

FreeRepublic could do things like this if we weren't endlessly flooded with hundreds of articles that have nothing to do with being conservative. We've lost our sense of community...

Here's how it works: Last Wednesday those 55,000 Dean supporters were directed by Meetup to go to 310 locations across the U.S. at 7 p.m. local time. There they were each given the addresses of three undecided Democrats in Iowa and asked to send handwritten letters to them. Campaigns are charged $2,500 for the service, a deal referred to by Meetup's founders as the Trippi special. Dean is by far the most popular candidate on Meetup, with Kerry a distant second.