Way back on February 9, 2004, I wrote a famous (well, Doc Searls
linked to it) post called The Internet Does Not Scale/The Internet Is Not Random (scroll down) on the collapse of Howard Dean’s mostly internet-fueled campaign in the cornfields of Iowa. It said, in part:
AFL-CIO President Elected for 4th Term
John J. Sweeney, the president of the AFL-CIO, was re-elected yesterday for a 4th term. This comes right after a big fiasco in which two major unions left the federation.