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To: JohnM who wrote (12174)	10/13/2003 9:23:42 PM
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Jim Moore has some interesting things in this brief note comparing the Dean and Clark campaigns. It's the openness and creativity of the Dean campaign which fascinates him. Clearly the Clark campaign suffers by comparison. But Moore digs a bit deeper, looking to see if the Dean campaign might portend a different kind of politics, one that puts top down and bottom up organizational models together in new ways. blogs.law.harvard.edu The important questions re: the Clark campaign The Clark campaign seems to be addressing its cyber critics by suggesting that these people do not speak for a broader movement, and that the problems of the campaign are normal startup issues. This may or may not be true. The questions raised by their critics are still valid: What is the Clark campaign doing to harness grassroots activism? How is the Clark campaign going to bring new people into the political process, and what roles will these newcomers have? How will the campaign blend the expertise and intuitions of its traditional professionals—and their interest groups—with the perspectives and power of new emerging leaders and groups? How will the Clark campaign capitalize on Wesley Clark’s intelligence and freshness to improve the caliber and creativity of political dialogue in the nation? What’s “open” about the Dean campaign is not simply its blogging and commenting and meeting up, What is also open and evolving is the overarching structure and organizing philosophy of the campaign. This is what is exciting and hopeful. We would like to know more about how the Clark campaign is innovating in structure and organizing philosophy. As my previous post suggests, I believe that the Dean campaign itself has lots of unrealized potential. Much remains to be invented, explored, developed. The same is true of the Clark campaign. My question is whether the Clark campaign can form itself into a platform for open innovation, a place for open source politics? And can the Clark campaign, like the Dean campaign, become a place where we learn about new forms of leadership that combine bottom-up and top-down, emergence and strategy? # Posted by James Moore on 10/12/03; 3:21:41 PM -

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