Source: Good News Network
15 years ago today, former Vermont governor and physician Howard Dean launched his maverick campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination that would become the model for grassroots internet campaigning and raise $50 million mostly in small donations under fifty dollars.
(2003)(Photo by Nick Davis, CC)
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