Jerome Armstrong (born February 26, 1964, in Los Angeles, California) is an American political strategist. In 2001, he founded MyDD, a blog which covers politics with an openly Democratic partisan perspective, making him one of the first political bloggers. Armstrong coined the term netroots, and was referred to as The Blogfather for having mentored many other famous bloggers such as Markos Moulitsas in their early years. He is credited as one of the architects of Howard Dean's '04 grassroots Presidential campaign, and bringing those tactics to campaigns globally. He is one of the co-founders of Vox Media.
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