Dean acknowledges Iowa-New Hampshire strategy didn't work

[bicentennial_baby]

Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean lamented his losses in Iowa and New Hampshire, acknowledging Sunday, "We took a gamble and it didn't pay off."

Once the front-runner in the race for the party's presidential nomination, Dean said he regretted burning through most of the $41 million his campaign raised last year.

"We spent a lot of money in Iowa and New Hampshire trying to win," Dean told NBC's "Meet the Press." "We took an enormous gamble and it didn't work."

The former Vermont governor laid out his campaign strategy, looking past the next round of primaries and caucuses in seven states on Tuesday, with eye toward the Feb. 7 caucuses in Michigan and Washington state and the Wisconsin primary 10 days later.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/01/politics1120EST0483.DTL

[Zomby Woof]

1. I'll give him props

He didn't blame the media. There is a lesson there.

[janx]

3. Thanks, ZW.

You're right about that.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

2. I like how he said he tried and failed to do what Kerry actually achieved.

With double Kerry's money, I might add.

[NNN0LHI]

4. He threw the dice and they came up snake eyes

Not the first time this has happened to someone and it won't be the last either.

Don

[MrBenchley]

5. Something to focus on instead

"President Bush was the first to file his report. It shows the Republican raised a record $132.7 million last year and spent $33.6 million.
Bush headed into the primary season with $99 million left to spend. He has no Republican challenger, leaving him free to focus his spending on preparing for the general election season and the emergence of a Democratic nominee-to-be.
We've spoken a bit about the Dean Campaigns incredible burn rate, but think for a second about what it means that Bush has spent as much as Dean has without running in any primaries. Dean's been running ads, funding field organizations, flying volunteers around...Bush is doing none of that, but is using just as much money."

http://www.pandagon.net/mtarchives/000867.html

Wonder what Chimpy spent that money on?