Dean getting credit [View All]

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Finally Dean getting some credit.
Dean made a difference in this campaign.

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20040209/5909279s.htm

''He touched a nerve, and that jolted everyone else,'' says David Axelrod, a Chicago-based strategist for North Carolina Sen. John Edwards. ''When he had such early success, I think it forced a number of them to assess what they were doing out there.''

''Everybody did the same thing we did: They pulled words that Dean was using'' and adopted them for their own appeals, says Jano Cabrera, an aide to Sen. Joe Lieberman. The Connecticut senator withdrew from the contest last week. ''There was an entire period where all the candidates, including my guy, became 'angry.' ''