Zack Exley

At Yearly Kos 2 August, 2007

I didn’t come last year. I should have. There is an amazing energy here. I hope some of the journalists covering this will notice how un-stereotypical (I mean the journalists’ stereotypes about the Netroots or “Internet people”). Oh wait, I’m a journalist now, so I’ll try to write about this.

Right now I’m in Dave Boundy’s session on the ’08 Ground Game. Dave is the new political director at the DNC. He is one of the main people who built the powerful Labor political program at the AFL, so watch out.

Here’s his plan (from his first slide):

1. ORGANIZE EVERYWHERE
2. COUNT EVERYTHING
3. QUESTION ASSUMPTIONS

The audience liked that quite a bit.

UPDATE: Session ending now. Basically, Dave’s fighting hard and smart to rebuild the Democratic Party, combining new technology, good data, and old school organizing sense. Whoever the next Ken Melhman is, he should be very worried.