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<< More Using 911 to Bust Unions | Main | Projection >> February 08, 2004Dean and the InternetSome are comparing Dean's meltdown to the dotcom hype and bubble bursting. It's an easy metaphor, but really misses the point. Kevin Drum has some good discussion on this and thinks that the Net demonstrated its effectiveness in raising money and building a campaign for Dean. Kevin's right, and probably even underestimates how wrong the backlash against Dean's Net success is. The fact that the Internet did not guarantee Dean victory is a ridiculous test of its effectiveness. I was one of the more skeptical folks in the blogosphere early on in hyping Dean's Internet success (see here and here), and I stand by the criticisms I made then of hyping the Internet over traditional mass organizations. But in the context of election campaigns, Dean's success was stunning. He went from a barely known governor to the frontrunner in polls across the country. He raises tons of money and mobilized tens of thousands of grassroots volunteers. And then he stumbled in very traditional ways. His TV ads were apparently not that great in Iowa and he got pulled into a destructive negative ad war with Gephardt-- mistakes that had nothing to do with the Internet. And his loss in Iowa was compounded by the media hyping of his "scream", which doomed his campaign. The fact that the Internet got Dean to the point that he could fall so far is impressive. Judge its effectiveness by the heights it took Dean, not the depths he fell based on non-Internet related factors. Posted by Nathan at February 8, 2004 11:14 AM Related posts:
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsYou make some good points there although I think that Dean's internet success was hyped up to seem like it was greater than it was. According to Media Tenor, which monitors news reports, Dean got five times as much news coverage leading up to Iowa as any other candidate. If that's not hype, I don't know what is. Posted by: Al-Muhajabah at February 8, 2004 02:53 PM It may be hype, but it's probably about the same proportion of the media that Kerry's getting now that he's the overwhelming frontrunner. Success gets hyped and Dean got it for a while because of his Internet successes. Posted by: Nathan at February 8, 2004 05:45 PM According to the more recent Media Tenor reports, Kerry still got less coverage than Dean in the week between Iowa and New Hampshire and had only slightly more than Dean in the week between New Hamsphire and Mini Tuesday. Face it, Dean was overhyped. Posted by: Al-Muhajabah at February 9, 2004 06:55 AM I'm not sure you can count the media destroying Dean after Iowa with a distortion of one minute of a long speech as "overhyping." Although Dean was no doubt a more interesting story than many of the other candidates who so carefully stick to their scripts. Posted by: Nathan at February 9, 2004 07:50 AM the media always gives more coverage to the front runner. the question is how does a candidate become the front runner in the first place. in dean's case the internet played a big part perhaps the biggest part in making him the front runner in the first place. also I wonder: was dean's downfall waiting to happen or did it happen only because of the unique outcome of the new hampshire primary? i.e. had dean won the new hampshire primary and therefore not given his scream speach and therefore not receive the bad publicity and therefore picked up some more endorsements and money would he have won the primary or would he have just stumbled latter. Posted by: zero the hero at February 9, 2004 09:22 AM I think what it shows is that in the fact of gross imbalances (like with a fairly obscure candidate like Dean at the beginning, or in the difference between Repub and Dem money making machines) the internet can "level" some of those differences when used effectively. But it doesn't bring the campaign victory home, the other stuff is also important. Posted by: a gilas girl at February 9, 2004 06:36 PM How much of that Dean coverage was the media making the argument that Dean wasn't "electable?" How much was that media coverage about Dean's "anger problem" or asking whether he was "presidential"? I think Dean fell partly from his own doing, but also because the Party leadership didn't want him and sent the media out to get him. Also, you'd think the whole race was over. 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