It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.

These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread.

Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.



Friday, October 24, 2003
 
Over at Irregular Tracking, a trend is emerging. Bumper sticker sales for Clark have dropped significantly from the boom of late September and early October. For over a week now, Clark's rate of gain of Meetup members has dropped back below Dean's rate, which has recovered from its late September and early October doldrums. And while Dean's website visits have picked up in the past week, Wesley Clark's has stagnated.

Given the strategy of Wesley Clark's campaign, which is to overcome a very late start with a broad push for support of his candidacy, this trend is significantly discouraging. Clark is already well behind in his competitors in organizational and monetary terms. If he cannot compensate in grassroots enthusiasm, then his candidacy will go nowhere. I don't like to make predictions as a rule, but given the combination of Clark's needs and the mediocre enthusiasm he is inspiring, I predict Clark's campaign will not have the momentum to make it to the convention.

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