Go to: Joe Trippi Joe Trippi, 47, became manager of Howard Dean's presidential campaign on March 3, 2003, joining his partners Steve McMahon and Mark Squier, who had been Dean's media consultants for all five of his gubernatorial campaigns. Trippi worked on the presidential campaigns of Edward Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Richard Gephardt. By 1988, he swore he would never work on another presidential race. In the early 1990s, he got involved with Internet companies and began thinking about the possibilities of a political campaign using the Internet to find supporters and raise money. The Dean campaign gave him the opportunity to test his theory. The campaign ended up raising nearly $50 million in small donations, breaking Democratic primary fund-raising records. But after finishing third in Iowa and second in New Hampshire, Dean replaced Trippi with Roy Neel, former Vice President Al Gore's chief of staff, and offered Trippi a diminished role in the campaign. Instead, Trippi left the campaign on January 28, 2004, and on the same day, he registered a new Web site, changeforamerica.com.