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[Bumped, by Eric.]

Since many of our members were activated and empowered by the Dean campaign, I thought this was worth sharing.

This week's discussion at the TPMCafe Book Club focuses on the impact of the Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign. The books being discussed are The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House and Mousepads, Shoe Leather, and Hope: Lessons from the Howard Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics.

One particular observation that stands out to me, from Zephyr Teachout:

"The Dean campaign decentralized power; many campaigns have borrowed the tools and innovations from that cycle, but primarily for decentralizing tasks."