Must be Sweeps Week: Odum managed to nab Howard Dean for a very revealing little back-and-forth over at DemocracyFest. It’s Dean at his most relaxed, cracking wise about the upcoming campaign, Vermont bloggers, and way his critics have embraced the 50-State Strategy, but under the name of the “enhanced field” approach.

On the Internet and netroots campaigning: “I think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread.”

Precisely. And in a moment of supreme focus, Odum forces Dean to actually write down the time and date of next month’s Political BBQ and Hamburger Summit. Well struck, as they say in England.

And well worth a read today.