Here's the earliest I could find on Delphi: The DELPHI Technique -- (Let's us Freepers Dominate Liberal Planning Groups), posted by Laz.
There's another from August of '99, So, have you been Delphi'd?
“Free Republic has been on this for years and it’s good to see more posts like this.”
I first read about it when I read Beverly Eakmans Educating for the new world order back in the day (around 1993) http://www.amazon.com/Educating-New-World-Order-Eakman/dp/0894202782
I was trying to decide wether or not to homeschool our children and that book completely blew my mind. When we in fact did decide to put our kids in a parent run charter school, I experienced The Delphi Technique first hand as a school board member played us during a meeting where we were debating how gay the curriculums in Boulder Valley were going to become.
Nobody noticed what she was doing as she did it, but later on I felt so dumb.
I actually have not thought about it for years, but as I’ve observed Obamas tactics during the campaign and watched him these past few weeks, I realized the other day that he was using it EVERYWHERE.
We HAVE to call him on it and educate as many people as possible.
Let Freedom Ring.
Jen