I remember back when I first broached the subject of Howard Dean for DNC chair with my (quasi-liberal) friends. They were shocked. Thought I was kidding. Then they laughed. "DEAN for DNC chair? Dean the Scream? You're kidding, right? You think the answer to this mess of an election is Dean?" Here we are a few months later, and it's a done deal. Not only was it a done deal, it wasn't even close. I'm pretty sure that we had something to do with it.
The election. What started off as buzz and whispers of voting fraud/irregularities in Ohio turned into a cause that won of the support of several congressional reps. Heck, we even convinced a Senator to challenge Ohio's electoral vote--something that had been done in about a billion years---and something that everyone said we could never do. I remember staying up late, barely awake, writing letters and emails about the election, even when everyone (except all of you) thought it was a lost cause. We forced the issue into the national spotlight. Keith Olbermann covered the story nightly, in large part due to information and support from the blogosphere.
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