[lbo-talk] Dean's Self-Demolition

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Tue Jan 20 19:49:34 PST 2004


----- Original Message ----- From: "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>


> There has been little discussion here of Dean's poor
> performance in Iowa. What explains it? He has high
> negatives, people didn't like him. Wsa he perceived as
> too liberal? As too arrogant? Too angry and
> aggressive?

All of the above (plus, I would think most importantly, the perception of unelectability)--months of negative press by the superficial press corps certainly didn't help Dean in the game of impression management.


> Do you think he's out?

Not yet. Too much cash on hand, and the anti-Dean vote is split at the moment amongst Kerry, Clark, and Edwards.


> I have no attachnment to him, just to anyone who could beat Bush. The
polls suggested he could not.

Which polls are you referring to? Dean was running five percentage points behind Bush last time I checked.


> What do people think of the upset victor, Kerry?

Substantively and stylistically, Al Gore redux. Might be a bit more liberal than Gore, though.

-- Luke



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