As I see all the moderates, republicans and independents joining up around the country for Dean volunteer activities and posting to the blog, this campaign is a phenomenon of people feeling energized by a man they can respect. Again and again, the comments from people are that they have never felt like a politician could be trusted or that they would want to campaign for anyone until they got to know about Howard Dean. He has backbone to stand up about Iraq when the other Dems caved to save their D.C. careers. He's intelligent, fiscally conservative, supporting of the people running the country, not the special interests. Most of his funds have been an average donation of under $100, and he raised over 7 million that way. It's a phenomenon of people seeking him out to help the campaign rather than his staff having to find volunteers. People are coming in droves to www.meetup.com to help Dean. About 500 people a day sign up to meet others face to face in their community the first Wed of each month to plan campaign events.

check out the numbers at www.meetup.com