Thursday, August 14, 2003
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Morning News
Matt Towery at the Atlanta Journal Constitution takes a look at the appeal of Howard Dean in rural areas, and notes the impact the web has had in less densely-populated regions:
[Dean] is focusing on rural America and the thousands of towns and smaller cities that serve it as centers of daily life. Small-town life predominates Vermont, and Dean is promising to help restore rural communities.
He has tied positions on virtually every issue -- from the economy to the environment -- to the development and growth of rural areas, where he contends that President Bush's policies had little positive impact.
For many people in less densely populated areas, the Web has become a primary tool, from shopping to entertainment. So it may be that Dean's "small-town" thinking was the genesis of his campaign's celebrated strategy to have Web-using supporters forward campaign literature to others.
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