Cambridge, MA

I've spent the day attending a conference at the Harvard law school titled, "Votes, Bits & Bytes." www.internetandsociety.org. It has mostly been a fascinating conference and I'm glad I'm here. I'm most interested in following up with Professor Robert Putnam from the Kennedy School of Government. It sounds to me like he has been doing some interesting research into grassroots organizing.

One quick take away from the conference. I believe the Bush campaign may have run the best field campaign ever. That's hard for me, as a Democrat, to say. I spent the entire campaign watching their work and it was very well done. It was interesting today to see both the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign talk about their online grassroots organizing efforts. It is clear that the Republicans out-organized the Democrats.