Dean Camp's Tactics Applied to Colorado

Washington Post ^ | 10/9/5 | Brian Faler

[Crackingham]

A small advocacy group in Colorado is betting that it can take one state-of-the-art Web site, add half a million dollars or so and end up with a potent tool that will enable it to organize the state's entire community of liberal activists.

ProgressNow, formed two years ago, is borrowing some of the online tactics that helped fuel the 2004 presidential campaign of Howard Dean, now the Democratic National Committee chairman. It has invited activists from across the state to use its Web site free to push most any issue they like.

The goal is to create a go-to site for Colorado activists -- a sort of online hub for everyone from environmentalists to abortion rights advocates to those concerned about the direction of their school boards. The group hopes liberals will use the site -- ProgressNowAction.org -- to find each other, organize and meet people working on other issues. In the process, it hopes to assemble a statewide network of activists and, ultimately, give Democrats a new and easily replicated model for local political organizing.

"We're taking what we learned from the Dean campaign and are applying it to a state," said Bobby Clark, who worked on Dean's Internet team before becoming deputy director of ProgressNow. "If we do our job right, when election time comes around, we will have a much more engaged electorate."

It is one of the more unusual -- and ambitious -- efforts in grass-roots organizing at the state level. Notably, the group has no connection to the Democratic Party, which has launched its own effort to rebuild its state parties.

[xcamel]

Looney-birds of a feather flock together

[JimRed]

Sounds like an opportunity for FReeper infiltrators...

;^)

[RoadTest]

"ProgressNow, formed two years ago, is borrowing some of the online tactics that helped fuel the 2004 presidential campaign of Howard Dean"

We hope with similar success.

[muawiyah]

The internet turns out to be an excellent tool for carving out a community of interest and isolating it from the world.

Democrats, Liberals, Socialists ~ etc. cannot help but CENSOR the content. Which is why the total annual audience for all leftwing blogs put together is about 1/10 the total annual audience for Free Republic.

[irons_player]

"The group hopes liberals will use the site -- ProgressNowAction.org -- to find each other, organize and meet people working on other issues. "

And while your there sign the site guest book, this will entitle you to a salami autographed by none other than King Salami himself Bill Clinton.

[Grampa Dave]

ProgressNow is another site for perverts funded by the biggest pervert in the world, George $oreA$$.

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?fr=ybr_sbc&p=ProgressNow%20Soros

[quantim]

a sort of online hub for everyone from environmentalists to abortion rights advocates

To: Gun-grabbing, homo agendas, union thuggery, tax-raisers, welfare cheating, - geez that list could go on forever.

[RedRover]

As long as Leftists stick to the Joe Trippi blueprint for success, our Republic is safe.

[Balding_Eagle]

it hopes to assemble a statewide network of activists and, ultimately, give Democrats a new and easily replicated model for local political organizing.

They picked a good state to try this out in.

It's a divided state, may vote blue in 2008

Weak Governor Ownens (R), good friend of RINO's, now supporting an initiative for the largest tax increase in CO's history.

[foolscap]

ProgressNow, formed two years ago, is borrowing some of the online tactics that helped fuel the 2004 presidential campaign of Howard Dean

Well that was certainly a blueprint for a screaming success.