Fowler worked for Offthebus, a citizen journalist organization set up for the 2008 campaign. It had it's ups and downs. via

The writer, married to a successful corporate lawyer and with two daughters in graduate school, admits now that she at times sank into the sort of elitism she loathed in others. She complained she wasn't getting enough attention from overseers at Huffington Post. Yet at the end of the campaign, the website treated her as a star, paying expenses that she said one month reached $15,000.

"I was becoming more than a prima donna," Fowler writes, "in some surreal twist of circumstance I was turning into what I had once mocked."