Dean announcement at 1pm ET today

[WilliamPitt]

The Times webpage has a notation that Dean will be speaking at 1pm today.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/18/politics/campaign/18CND-DEAN.html?hp

Dean Expected to Pull Back on Bid for White House Today
By JODI WILGOREN

Published: February 18, 2004

MADISON, Wis., Feb. 18 — Howard Dean is expected to effectively end his presidential campaign today, a day after a distant third-place finish in the Wisconsin Democratic primary.

Dr. Dean is to appear this afternoon in Burlington, Vt., to clarify his plans, and aides said after the returns came in Tuesday night that they expected him to announce that he was abandoning his White House bid. But they also said that he would not leave the campaign trail altogether and that he intended to create a political action group that would work to oust President Bush and fill Congress and state legislatures with Democrats.

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[Desertrose]

1. never been a Dean fan...but I am saddened by this

cause I really feel the media is fast taking our choices away from us....


what a chess game they play with candidates & voters...it just farking sucks....

(perhaps in some ways it is good Dennis is under their radar...)

I feel for Dean supporters.....
:hug:
DR

[Mairead]

9. Me too, DR

I feel very bad for them. Two of them are neighbors, and they were ragging me unmercifully earlier on about how DK was a no-hoper, but they're mighty silent and glum the now.

[SadEagle]

2. Thanks for the heads up, Will

eom

[ajacobson]

3. I wasn't a Dean supporter

but if he put his energy into a grassroots effort to mobilize people around a progressive agenda, I'll get behind that 100%.

[revcarol]

4. I am sad for all the Dean supporters.

That effort was grass roots in action.

I hope that Dean won't shoot down my respect for him by endorsing a candidate with opposite views on the war, gay rights, etc.That would make his defeat even worse for all of us.

[liberalnurse]

5. I think we all should eat cake.

Everyone should have a piece.

[WilliamPitt]

6. There's a statement on the Dean website

http://www.deanforamerica.com/

[maddezmom]

7. Kick

:kick:

[killbotfactory]

8. CBS has it streaming live

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml

So does c-span.org