A political novice who was a Stormer reflects poignantly on her experiences. i'm sure many have the same tale to tell:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/02/05/deaniac/index.html
this paragraph hit me the most, because i think it is so true and why i really do not like Dean's Washington insiders and special interests obsession that he's on now when he should be showing what a pragmatic and thoughtful and ELECTABLE executive he was for VT:
I heard him first in a hall at the Des Moines fairgrounds four days before the caucuses. I was there to wave a sign, to be part of the breathing wallpaper for the TV cameras. Dean was introduced by longtime Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, whose speech was full of references to "Washington insiders" and "special interests." It contained none of the political complexity I'd inferred from Dean's record in Vermont, or even his earlier speeches. Dean looked tired. He spoke, as usual, at full throttle. He reached to the hands that reached up to him, but now it was obvious to me that he was touching the hands of the converted. He wasn't campaigning like someone wooing -- and given the response I'd gotten on the streets, that surprised me. On television, I'd seen John Edwards speaking conversationally, as though he were a guest in somebody else's living room, speaking as though to one person. Dean talked to multitudes and not to me.