Apostasy!

10:00 AM Aug 25, 2006

We'd like to congratulate Nicco Mele, former Dean web guru and exec of the friendly consulting shop EchoDitto, on rising above the modest station appointed to our like to be saluted by Atrios as Wanker of the Day, personally ripped by the likes of Kos and Yglesias, and heaved from the New Organizing Institute board, after coming out for John McCain in 2008.

Nicco and EchoDitto have been at pains to emphasize it as a personal choice and one not related to the firm's business, but presumably there's a little more heat in this story -- first reported by Hotline On Call in an interesting piece on the McCain campaign's apparent emphasis on web campaigning for '08* -- than either anticipated.

* - Dean in '04 vaulted Internet campaigning into the spotlight, but McCain in '00 was a major pioneer of a less mature medium.

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