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What went wrong in the Howard Dean campaign, which looked like a winner until voters showed up at the primaries? Maybe Dean was never really ahead, says Clay Shirky [5]. A senior Dean campaign aide agrees: "Even though we looked like an 800-pound gorilla, we were still growing up [6]. We were like the big lanky teenager that looked like a grown man." And why did the media think otherwise? According to Jay Rosen, "the way campaign coverage was organized helped inflate and sustain a news bubble. ... The press bubble was blown around the figure, 'front runner in Iowa and New Hampshire,' a narrative device activated by Dean's poll numbers and bank account."
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/13916/sheldon-rampton
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/media/internet
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/politics
[4] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2004%2F02%2F2411%2Fvoices-crash-site&linkname=Voices%20at%20the%20Crash%20Site
[5] http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/02/03/exiting_deanspace.php
[6] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/politics/campaign/01DEAN.htm
[7] http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/02/07/crash_site.html