Buzz Growing Louder

Here it is the last few hours of 2003 and someone forwards me a plea from the Dean campaign to help send them over the top of the record $15 million fundraising threshold for the last quarter. Impressive, and a clear indication that the Dean swarm is not about to cease their buzzing after a few Bush scores and frenzied barbs from competitors. And what about those Democratic colleagues? The primary buzz around the coffee machine seems to be pretty focused still on replacing Bush. The attacks on Dean by Kerry and Lieberman in particular, have arroused some of the strongest emotion I've seen in the campaign thus far--mostly back toward the attackers for doing the Republicans' work for them, questioning whether the Democratic front runner is fit to be President. They say these attack tactics only play into Dean's hands, and allow him to focus on the Bush administration, and the differences between him and the other insider apologists. To the extent voters see through it--maybe it will help to crystalize what seems to be Dean's different direction and further energize the swarm. Its bound to be an exciting New Year!