What do college student William Maggos, computer worker Rebecca Theen and Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. have in common? All three Chicagoans are planning on crossing the border into Wisconsin over the next week or so to be part of what Howard Dean has characterized as the last chance for his Democratic presidential bid.
"Why not the North Woods?" Jackson said when asked where in the Badger State he would like to campaign for the former Vermont governor. "I've been deer hunting up there before. . . . I mostly go fishing in Wisconsin." But this time Jackson and the other Illinois Deaniacs will be hoping to bag something perhaps even more elusive than a white-tailed buck or legal-size muskie.
Dean may have gotten a boost from second-place finishes in Michigan and Washington on Saturday. But Gerald McEntee, powerful union chief of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, told Dean his union was withdrawing its endorsement, a potentially crippling blow.
Failing to win a single one of the eleven binding state primaries and caucuses already held -- and only three times capturing second place -- Dean has sent out an e-mail to his supporters portraying Wisconsin's Feb. 17 primary as do-or-die. "A win there will carry us to the big states of March 2 and narrow the field to two candidates," Dean wrote. "Anything less will put us out of this race."
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