This Boston.com article (A hired gun who muses with fingertips) profiles Matt Gross, who first proposed to the Dean campaign that they should enliven their official web presence with a weblog.
Incidentally, the Dean campaign if looking for a sysadmin (with a well specified skillset) willing to move to Burlington, VT, and work long hours for little pay. The comment thread is somewhat afflicted by a troll, or at least it was last night when I was reading it, but that’s a consequence of open communication.