US News & World Report this week carries the Nth article asking
whether Dean is The One?.
There's an interesting glimpse at how campaign strategy changed as Dean went from insurgent to improbable front-runner. Trippi and staff architected a mid-course correction, realizing that the campaign was no longer "'...about issues. It is about values.... It's about a fight for our values and our country, who owns it and who runs it...; a call to reclaim what we have lost.'"
Albeit dramatically stated, this is the sentiment that has long excited me about Dean's campaign; I believe these sentiments will successfully bring to the table enough people who stayed home in 2000 to change the political winds.
The article's closing thought is one that struck me awhile back. It's a dimension of the campaign that is still growing, but I believe it will ultimately resonate loudly. Invoking a familiar and inspirational call, Trippi declares: "We are not going to promise the American people a paradise. Instead they are going to hear a summons to do their duty."