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Monday, August 28, 2006

Camp for Boring Politicians?

I've mentioned this before, but it was in Sunday's Post, so I thought I would mention it, again:

Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) has started campaign training camps ...

The camps trained 50 activists who have since been dispatched to help on local, state and federal campaigns. The distribution of these staffers -- 25 to Iowa, 15 to New Hampshire, six to Indiana, three to Nevada and one to South Carolina -- give Bayh eyes and ears in the four early presidential primary and caucus proving grounds, as well as in his home state.

From a mechanics perspective, no candidate on the Democratic side has done a better job than Bayh. But as past campaigns have shown (Remember former Texas senator Phil Gramm's collapse in the early stages of the 1996 GOP nomination fight?), process without personality is meaningless.