Yeah, the comparison's been made a lot. Governors of small states, started as outsiders, picked up a buzz, yadayadayada. But I just finished watching The War Room, the documentary about the 1992 Clinton campaign. (Netflix is your friend.) And I was really struck by three things:

1. Even though he disappointed me in a number of ways, man, I miss Bill Clinton.
2. If the Al Gore I saw campaigning in that movie had been around in 2000, things would be very different now.
3. The Dean campaign is an awful lot like that Clinton campaign in a number of ways:
   • Lack of hierarchy.
   • Pugnaciousness.
   • Campaign manager ready to take the fight to the other guy (Trippi, Carville)
   • Willing to do things in new ways instead of sticking to the way you're "supposed" to do them.
   • Attracting new voters (a record number of young people voted in 1992).
   • Getting lots of volunteers who are really committed to the candidate and just out-working the other guys.

Will it have the same happy ending? Ah, it's way too early to say that. But I think that anybody who's a Democrat should try to watch this movie and remember what won the White House in '92 before saying that Dean "isn't electable".