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Nazgul35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 10:43 PM
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The anti-establishment candidates....
For the months leading up to the Iowa caucus, the media and people here were focused on who would be the anti-Dean....

This was wrong headed....Dean was part of an anti-establishment movement within the party by the rank and file members who are tired of being shut out by interest groups....

What has reall happened is that Clark, Dean and Kucinich latched on to that message and received support from that group...but it was splintered!

Later, in Iowa, Edwards embraced this movement (his stump speeches are all about being an outsider) and this was, I feel, the real upsurge for him in Iowa! Dean was hurt by having to fight a nasty mud-slinging contest which hurt both himself and Gephardt...

So now we have New Hampshire....the pundits are going to be spining the results tonight, but here is what I see....Kerry latched onto the "safe" vote, the main stream Dems....those concerned only with beating Bush.....

But Clark, Dean, Edwards and Kucinich grabbed up the anti-establsihment vote....the let's take our party back vote...the anti-DLC inside the belt way punditry voters....

Now tonight, I want you to carefully add up the number of votes that these four men received and compare that to Kerry....

For you see, the establishment has their man....we are fighting over who should be the anti-establishment candidate

Take heart everyone!

The campaigns of Clark, Dean, Edwards and Kucinich and their supporters far outnumber the number of "Third Way" Dems....

Now we move to the South and Mid-West with these candidates intact...follow the money in the next few weeks, see who comes to the aid of whom.....discover where the real fight is!!!

Don't let them convince you that only one of these men can beat Bush!!!! We can elect an ice cream cone if we put our time, effort and cash into that cause!!!!!
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