Hopefuls (except Dean) draw few outside party's core in SC

[Freddie Stubbs]

ROCK HILL - Looking about her at the 70 or so other people who braved Saturday's chill to see Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt, Winthrop University professor Karen Kedrowski said she knew most of them, at least by sight.

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That's how it's been all across South Carolina this fall as the pack of 2004 Democratic presidential hopefuls has stepped up their campaign visits to the state in the run-up to the Feb. 3 primary.



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With only the rare exception, their audiences have been small -- rarely over 100 people -- and made up almost exclusively of committed party activists.

Only the insurgent campaign of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean has brought out a large number of people previously uninvolved in politics, most of them technologically savvy enough to do much of their organizing via the Internet. More than 300 turned out to greet Dean in Columbia a week ago.

more: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/7487783.htm

[Larkspur]

1. I'm shocked! The meme says that Clark should be trouncing Dean in the

South. Why is Dean out raising Clark in the South over the "previously univolved" citizen?

[Freddie Stubbs]

2. Don't forget that guy from the state next to South Carolina

What's his name? :shrug:

[RogueTrooper]

3. Meal Worker

or something like that?