Dean says he will attack at least through March 2

[DJcairo]

Why? He says no one told the other candidates to stop for the last four months when he was getting beaten up. Hello, there had been no votes cast and honestly, plenty of people were wondering aloud if Kerry would drop. Bob Graham dropped out, too. Dean's fiest, but he hurls invective like crazy and it would get him in so muhc trouble if he got anywhere close to the nomination.

[Renew Deal]

1. He never said he would stay in through march 2.

He said he thinks it will end then and he is not dropping out unless he is getting blown out.

[WilliamPitt]

4. "Blown out"

It will be interesting to see how he chooses to define that. I've read here that he is essentially rendering himself noncompetitive for the next seven states, and the ones after, waiting for Wisconsin on the 17th. That means he will essentially not be gaming in Arizona, Delaware, Missouri, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Michigan, Washington, Maine, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia, and Nevada. If he does not win in any of these states, it will be hard to say he isn't getting blown out.

Do I have this wrong?

[ShaneGR]

8. No, of course not

Although I would expect him to compete in Michigan, where they had a large early vote operation. Here's what I'm wondering, why isn't Dean in Arizona and New Mexico non-stop for the next four days. Seriously, you'd think with his spanish skills the guy would smell an opportunity.

Here's the deal. If he loses all 7 states next week. Then doesn't win any the following week. What good is Wisconsin going to do for him? And doesn't his camp understand momentum, all he'll have is negative press while the winners (Probably Kerry, Edwards/Clark) will be steamrolling.

[displacedtexan]

9. Do those states not matter to Dean?

I can hear it now: "I'm voting for Dean because he thinks I'm irrelevant."
or
"I'm voting for Dean because he wasted so much money on losing Iowa and NH that he couldn't afford to bring his message to me personally."

Not exactly winning strategies, either one (IMHO).

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. He's in Michigan today. Big rally.

:hi:

[WilliamPitt]

14. But is he running ads there?

[joshcryer]

17. He can't. Ads are expensive.

And personally, I think news coverage is far better. The national news is who reports which candidate is leading in the polls, etc. What he needs is good news media coverage.

Fat chance? :shrug:

[joshcryer]

15. I read somewhere that they're in until it's "mathematicaly...

...impossible" to win. Not sure where I read that, though, but it seems reasonable.

[newsguyatl]

2. again nice flame eric

why don't you go start another anti-dean website, instead of trying to turn du into one?

[HFishbine]

3. Vote totals to-date

Kerry: about 130,000
Dean: about 100,000

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. "Delegate count to-date:"

Howard Dean: 113
Sen. John F. Kerry: 94
Sen. John Edwards: 36
Wesley Clark: 30
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman: 25
Rep. Richard A. Gephardt: 7
Al Sharpton: 4
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich: 2
Other: 1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/elections/2004/delegateC...

[ShaneGR]

5. Win a primary Dr. Dean

And call me in the morning

[MercutioATC]

11. If you want to get right down to it, he doesn't have to...

He can pick up enough delegates without winning to lead to a brokered convention.

[joshcryer]

13. I feel he won't be able to broker with DLCers though.

Which is possibly why he made his softened DLC comments today on Meet the Press.

[TeeYiYi]

6. I thought he did GREAT on MTP . . .

I've never been a Dean supporter and he is now my number #2.

#1 of course is Kucinich.

TYY

[lastknowngood]

10. forget it he should them to ground and

then shoot them out of the trees.

[Skinner]

16. I'm locking.

If you want to have a discussion about an alleged statement by a candidate, you need to provide documentation.